Word: neuroticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Co-Author Roy Hargrave, who plays the unfortunate hero, is a sometime Williams man (1926), an adept at neurotic portraiture. He makes a terrifying thing of the sophomore's plight. Otherwise the play is often ill-designed; its dialog smacks of college magazines rather than colleges. The other coauthor...
Borrowed Love. Heroine Nina Leeds of Playwright Eugene O'Neill's famed Strange Interlude sees her weakling husband tortured by fears of his own sterility, knows him to be the possible heir of a family lunatic strain. Partly to restore his happiness, partly out of love for her...
Last month, the now-affluent Floyd Dell wrote a letter to Editor Gold in which he said: "I at first wished to have my name associated with the magazine because it represented a partly Communistic Communist and at any rate rebellious literary tendency, with which I am in sympathy. However...
Blanche Yurka is tall, almost burly. As the placid wife of improvidential Hjalmar Ekdal in The Wild Duck she filled an ample role to which her body, her accomplishments and her God better suit her than the tense thing to which she has tried to suit herself in Hedda Gabler...
In 1828, Caspar Hauser, 17, stumbling alone into Nürnberg, stimulated general curiosity because he could neither walk nor talk better than a child of two. He could remember that he had always lived in darkness (presumably a cell), slept on straw, eaten only bread and water, played pathetically...