Word: neuroticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Martyrdom involves a young man who has to work in the warehouse of a biscuit factory to support his wife and child, yet has the burning desire to be a motorcycle racer. He is the eternal figure with little talents who feels that he has a mission to do great...
Last week the U.S. embassy in Stockholm revealed that the Makars had written a letter "without a return address" renouncing their U.S. citizenship. During their stay in Sweden, they had gone to the Soviet embassy, declared their desire to become Soviet citizens, had finally boarded a plane for Moscow. There...
Into the Fire. Unlike his three peers, Rank was no physician but an earnest young engineering student who was attracted into Freud's orbit in 1905 as pupil, later as secretary of the psychoanalytic inner circle. He served Freud faithfully for 20 years, finally broke away, denouncing Freud'...
Though the plotless play is overlong and sometimes cumbrous and clumsy, these weaknesses-as not often in O'Neill -have their value. The repetitions, for example, are in character, as coming from broken-willed people with a neurotic need for the solace or savagery of words. The plotlessness is...
¶In the air man breathes a small proportion of all the molecules of nitrogen and oxygen are ionized by cosmic rays-they become positive ions if they lose an electron, negative ions if they gain one. Philadelphia researchers have found that almost two-thirds of hay fever victims won...