Word: neuroticisms
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I cannot agree with the Social Democratic politician [Oct. 4] who regards "clever, honest" Falldin as typically Swedish. The typical 20th century Swede is Olof Palme: arrogant, neurotic and vociferously anti-American.
Her advice is especially needed today, Landers said, because America is suffering through a period of "moral leukemia," in which "it takes nerves of steel even to be a neurotic."
He is just 40, a millionaire, world-renowned and, at the peak of his profession, a confident and gracious man. He is pale, despite the Sahara sun, but seemingly healthy. His life with Pierre Berge, his business partner and intimate of 15 years, has probably been as harmonious as most...
Drury assumes that a power struggle seethed between the pharaohs of the 18th dynasty and the priesthood of Amen, the most powerful of the gods. Amenhotep III, an easygoing, able administrator, failed to move firmly against the priests. When his son Amenhotep IV finally did strike at the priests, it...
Jaques (also Shakespeare's invention), the cheerless square peg in a round hole, reflects the Elizabethan era's fascination with neurotic states of mind (as in the plays of Ben Jonson), which would climax a few years later in the publication of Burton's huge Anatomy of Melancholy. Jaques is...