Word: neuroticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your articles about Riesman, Brando and Toynbee have illuminated one of the cancers which is destroying our American society-this cancer being the psychological norm. We are afraid to be different since we might be called neurotic or "crazy." We are afraid to live according to our Judeo-Christian-Buddhist...
The sleek, black colt looked like a winner. Highbred and proud, Landau moved out of the paddock under the royal purple, gold and scarlet silks of his owner, Queen Elizabeth II. But his reputation had preceded him to the U.S. Every horseplayer who had come to Laurel, Md. for the...
Hand-Ride for Fisherman. Now and then, after Brook's therapy, horses have run better. Even Landau went well for a while on English tracks last summer. But at Laurel last week, the neurotic colt faced a soggy track and stiff competition from six other fine thoroughbreds.
At 48, Dmitry Shostakovich has been up and down the ladder of official Soviet approval. In 1936 his opera-Lady Macbeth of Mzensk was considered "neurotic" (its heroine committed murder out of boredom rather than in the interests of social progress) and was banished from Moscow. During the war his...
Journalist Koestler made his pilgrimage to Russia just in time for the great 1932 famine, and traveled all the way to fabled Bokhara, where the muezzin had been replaced by the morning loudspeaker ("Get up, get up, empty your bowels, do your exercises . . ."). When he fell in love with a...