Word: neuroticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As if to highlight the plight of modern-day humor, the title piece focuses on a psychiatrist and his neurotic patient who stymie each other with the question, "What do you want?" The doctor finally admits that what he really wants is a new wing for his house in the...
At an age when his contemporaries dreamed of becoming cowboys or firemen, seven-year-old Lucas Marsh already knew his life work: he would be a doctor. He was handicapped from the first. Mamma, a neurotic and mystic who believed that only the spirit could heal, hated the very idea...
In the Summer House (by Jane Bowles) takes place on a dreamlike section of the Southern California coast, and contrasts the happy-animal life of a gaggle of Mexicans with the mental distress of half a dozen Americans in just about every stage of neurotic obsession. Widowed Judith Anderson, the...
The richest, most exuberant novel of the year came from Greece, the work of 68-year-old Nikos Kazantzakis, a top candidate for 1952's Nobel Prize. His Zorba the Greek had a picaresque hero who, almost alone in the fiction of 1953, communicated the conviction that it is...
Before she revolts, Molly is a monosyllabic young lady, who mopes in the summer house, reading comic books (Super Mouse). Although she is the closest thing to a heroine in the play, Molly is dangerous when peeved, since she apparently murders the neurotic young boarder, Vivian. In spite of her...