Word: neuroticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Donat, when he is supposed to get ruffled in uncomfortable situations, is very good indeed. His distinguished manner never falters as he lets his hair down and becomes a surprisingly human being. Kay Walsh, his neurotic, ambitions, but basically good wife, is somewhat less successful. The contrast she must draw...
¶ All the advice now so freely given on "how not to worry" is misleading, suggested Beverly Hills' Dr. Judd Marmor: "[Too] many people operate on the assumption that to worry about anything is ipso facto 'neurotic' and that the 'normal' person should never worry...
Such success at the track sharpened Butcher Auteroche's appetite for live horseflesh. Last month he spotted another likely winner: a neurotic chestnut trotter named Fabliau, given to temper tantrums and the quaint habit of kicking his racing rig to pieces. After paying 80,000 francs for the horse...
Carl W. Braun '58, pre-medical student, describes the emergency ward at MGH, where he works once each week, as "an on and off business." In the course of a three-hour stretch one evening, Braun remembers helping with two auto accident cases, one Delirium Tremens, two epileptics, a violent...
Maria Isaeva was blonde, thin, neurotic and married. Her drunken clod of a husband was controller of the distillation and sale of liquor in Semipalatinsk, the Siberian border town to which Dostoevsky was sent as an army private after his release from prison. Soon the smitten 33-year-old soldier...