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It was painted by Norwegian Artist Edvard Munch (pronounced Moohnk), who, although a founder of the expressionist school of painting, has only lately begun to gain some of the fame of his turn-of-the-century contemporaries, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Toulouse-Lautrec. Considered a madman much of his life...
This basic, or existential, anxiety (which Niebuhr sees as the precondition of sin) is no more disturbing, in normal quantities, than is rational fear of danger. In contrast, neurotic anxiety is irrational fear, a response to a danger that is unknown, internal, intangible or unreal. Anxiety is fear in search...
All the neurotic symptoms, major or minor, originate in the same way: they are defenses against anxiety. The most common are the phobias in which?to cover up anxiety and guilt too painful to be acknowledged?people develop an irrational aversion to some act or object seemingly unconnected with their...
As a tale of the masterful, but neurotic bootlegger manipulating a medicore, but good sheriff into a tragic trap. The Noblest Roman is somewhat ineffectual. But, as satire on the South, on county politics and preachings, and on the art of bootlegging, David Halberstam's first novel is pretty damned...
Contacted in Nashville at what sounded like quite a gay autographing party for his first novel, Halberstam told us a little about how he came to write the tale of Angelo the neurotic bootlegger.