Word: neuroticisms
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Investigators strongly suspect that the tic is neurotic in origin, related to the venting of aggression. Beginning in children as muscular twitches, the La Tourette syndrome gradually progresses to grunts and finally foul shouting. Doctors have tried everything from psychotherapy to sedatives and carbon dioxide inhalation, which is akin to...
Most of the girls surveyed last night were, as one of them put it, "quasi-annoyed." Another, with a strangely beautiful, full-boned face said, "Give me a week to get neurotic about it and then ask."
It was not quite the same Paar. All work and no play made Jack. Now that he had been retired for a year, the high-tension lines had dropped from his face; he looked younger, fitter, less neurotic-and less in tune with the times. He was obviously nervous and...
A Member of the Funeral. The reader is amazed at her amazement. The rest of the book is a merciless record of the trivia of death-old age and bed wetting, pubic baldness, enemas, Levin tubes, indignity, pain-all made tolerable because it also sets down the stages by which...
Rope's most striking asset is Gert Frobe, as a pig-eyed book seller who peers through inch-thick spectacles and proves to be a barrel of rare old felon in the very first scene. The night is dark; Frobe approaches a woman seated alone on a bus at...