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Word: neuroticisms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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IF set anywhere else in the United States, this entertaining series of neurotic episodes would be uninspired and without interest. But maladjusted Radcliffe girls and frustrated Harvards become extremely graphic as you follow them on their sexual excursions down the aisles of Widener ("Christ, Mark thought, doesn't anyone ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe's New Catalogue | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

Aaron's various sketches are uneven. The least original are those where he painstakingly describes the Party's cultural affairs and the amazingly scurrilous and passionate squabbles in the magazines that were closely identified with the Party. No part of Writers on the Left seems more remote from our own...

Author: By Joseph L. Featherstone, | Title: The Literary Left | 3/14/1962 | See Source »

I heard Fred Schwarz lecture to the students at Seattle University, drumming up recruits for his crusade. From him I heard such astonishing and rubbery statements as: Boris Pasternak was starved to death; he (Schwarz) was for the progressive income tax and therefore not a right-winger; there are three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 23, 1962 | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

And so on. Lover is just a stock-situation comedy, but the situation has been worked out as elegantly as a chess problem: opening gam bit, queen's sacrifice, knight rooked, mate. The same game, more or less, was played in Pillow Talk, an amusing and lucrative farce turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pillow Replumped | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

The story concerns Cassandra Edwards' neurotic, domineering attachment for her twin sister Judith. Judy leaves the family ranch in Southern California to study music in the East, returns a year later with a fiance in tow. Cass, studying for a Ph.D. at Berkeley, is panic-stricken. She rushes home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One v. Two | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

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