Word: neuroticisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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But the interplay of a neurotic count's daughter and her sadistic butler lover baring their psyches for two hours is about as static as an opera can get without freezing right in its tracks. To give it life and thrust, music of explosive lyric power and sweep was...
PROUST: THE LATER YEARS, by George D. Painter. British Museum Curator George D. Painter concludes his rich biography of Marcel Proust in a second volume. Remembrance of Things Past is virtually required prior reading, but once that hurdle is out of the way, the reader is treated to a detailed...
Whiting's characterization reaches its peak with the Prioress. We first see her kneeling in prayer to God the Father like a child before her bedstead. Unresolved Oedipal problems combined with her throbbing sex drives cause her to fall in love with Father Grandier in her fantasy. When he refuses...
Mrs. Dally, by William Hanley. More Neanderthal men have crossed the American stage than ever lived in prehistoric caves. These slopeheads invariably gnaw their English, scratch their armpits, and lock jaws and claws with some naggingly neurotic female. A play dismally devoted to such characters opened the Broadway theater season...
Those most severly affected by LSD, Dr. Rinkel explained, are persons whose pre-experimental personality has neurotic and latent psychotic tendencies.