Word: neuroticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The theme or key neurosis of the play is a matter of personal preference. The incapacity of the unloved for normal love, the introvert hiding from an extrovert world, the destructiveness of possessive motherhood are all possible choices. From the impressive stars of the play, Judith Anderson and Mildred Dunnock...
Promptly from Mr. Bertram Brown came this reply: I don't care about Murillo And Da Vinci leaves me cold; I don't go for Dufy's paintings Done in timid strokes or bold -// Giotto was neurotic, If Utrillo was too meek, I remain quite unaffected As...
Gian-Carlo (The Consul) Menotti, Italian-born composer of eerie operas, was asked in Washington whether he thought composers ought to reap some of the take from jukeboxes. "Unfortunately," he said, "I'm afraid that my music will never get into jukeboxes unless ihe whole country gets neurotic."
From these small adventures in utilitarian education, it has set out in the last half-century to accomplish a dizzying task -to embrace, instruct and elevate every child and seeking adult of all classes, all nationalities, all shades of intellectual capability: to teach the sick, the neurotic and the healthy...
TURKEY became the Middle East's most modern state in a generation and through the efforts of one man. Kemal Ataturk, a rough, hard-drinking neurotic who combined traces of Lincoln's vision and Stalin's ruthlessness, established the Turkish Republic, ran it like a dictatorship, topped...