Word: neuroticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Characters wander in & out of The Enclosure as if it were a transient hotel. Its reigning matriarch, Mrs. Halstead, dies, and with her goes the grand style of life. She had been, as one of the Enclosure stalwarts put it, "the only one around here worth the powder to blow...
That supreme American value of getting-ahead in a material way is under indictment by Mr. Stewart. The four characters who subscribe to this value are eminently neurotic--one even lapsing psychotic toward the close of each act. The other two characters escape this affliction, by one by having already...
England is described in later issues as "unrecognizably neurotic Britain, disloyal to the West" and "uncertain friend clawing at a lost liberty of action, and repeating the mentality of Munich." France is the land where "isms in painting grow like hydra heads from the withering body of dollar greed and...
In "The Seventh Veil," Ann Todd portrays a concert pianist who, after a long period of intense training by her cousin-guardian Nicholas (James Mason), succumbs to a neurotic illness. Miss Todd manages to put across many different ages, moods, and attitudes smoothly; she can shift from the coquettish to...
Professor Redlich does not know whether "truth drugs" are used in totalitarian countries to get confessions; they may not be necessary. "We suspect," he says, "that many of the striking confessions in police states were obtained from severely neurotic, guilt-ridden and self-punitive persons. Such persons are likely to...