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Pieces from the nomadic, neurotic past of Lee Harvey Oswald were still being filled in. Among them were copies of 15 letters Oswald had written to his mother, Mrs. Marguerite Oswald, in 1961-62, when he was in Russia, where he unsuccessfully sought Soviet citizenship, and married a Russian girl...
> "All authors are neurotic. I'll go even further: everybody in the creative side of the theater is neurotic. The reason is obvious. A child who has a happy, carefree, extroverted childhood does not turn his thoughts inward, does not stimulate his imagination with another world in order to...
Pointing to previous performances as one reason for his optimism, the student added that Harvard's chances for an "Ivy football diadem" and a Big Three crown should give the Crimson sufficient incentive to overcome Yale's almost neurotic need to do well before an, estimated home crowd of 60...
Both the Deans and their critics have argued from the same premises. Both have accepted the language of psychiatry and analysis. Both have accepted the use of impersonal words like neuroticism, maturity, and health. Both have accepted a definition of the word "sex" as a biological, egoistic, hurried act with strong sadistic overtones. The letter-writers, along with most speakers of modern English, have forgotten the humanistic, non-paychiatric, non-analytic synonyms for words like "neurotic...
"Mike" McLaughlin's brand of bitterness is more Angostura than Angst. "What we love about love," she observes, "is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures." In this book of aphorisms, jotted down in the time she can spare from her job as managing editor of Glamour...