Word: neuroticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The job of correspondent, Ruth finds, has its moments of pleasant feminine gossip. "Some of my more delightful coffee sessions: with former Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, who claimed that married women in business were more neurotic than single women; with Singer Joni James, about how much you have to spend...
Circumstantial Evidence. In Boston, Judge Frederick V. McMenimen called Antonio Sardo, 49, "neurotic" for accusing his wife Madeline, 37, of infidelity after she testified that she had been taking care of her ailing mother, supervised all her husband's bookkeeping, worked side by side with him every day in...
Victorian aunts had their own cure for the neurotic. "Fiddlesticks," they would cry, tapping a silver-headed cane firmly on the ground. "Just pull yourself together, dear, and you'll be all right." This outlook, combined with some Nietzschean notions about will power, is the essence of the psychological...
The Freudian idea that the neurotic patient is controlled by drives beyond his conscious understanding is repugnant to Dr. Low. Says he severely: "It is inconceivable that adult human life can be ordered without a Will." The Will that orders the lives of his patients is strictly Dr. Low'...
Neurotic Horse? Far across the rolling infield 22 thoroughbreds nudged the starting tapes, and they were off. Uphill to the mile post, favored Rowston Manor began to outpace the early leaders. The Queen's colt, Landau, was moving well, although he has been so temperamental lately that he has...