Word: neuroticisms
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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.
What most heartened the Tories and depressed the Laborites was a new Gallup poll that shows the Conservatives leading 49% to 41% . The shift in public opinion is doubtless due to Wilson's tough austerity measures intended to save the battered pound sterling. At week's end London...