Word: neuroticisms
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One-Eyed Jacks (Pennebaker; Paramount). Marlon Brando has often announced that mere acting ("a childish thing ... by and large the expression of neurotic impulse'') is too small a bottle for his creative genie. In 1958 he got a chance to put aside childish things: he launched his first...
The Honegger of the evening is a late and little-known Concerto da Camera for flute, English horn and strings. Unlike the tense and rigid bombast of his earlier works (notably the symphonies and the oratorios), the concerto is a relaxed, graceful, spacious and thoroughly un-neurotic work. The mood...
The likeliest recruits, he adds, "are inclined to be sensibly clean people, not liberal and dirty people." Whatever they are, they all have things on their minds. Wisconsin's Roger Claus pumps for nuclear bomb testing: "We should stop this neurotic brooding, brush the fallout off our lapels and...
The Keller family, despite its typical appearance, is in a bad way, Joe is a murderer Chris, the son, is an idealistic capitalist-to-be: and Mrs. Keller is a neurotic (she has migraine headaches and insists her son is still alive). Chris wants to marry Ann Deever, his brother...
Then he tackles a case too tangled for any brief. Sheila is a shimmeringly lovely, self-centered neurotic. The pain of their dissonant relationship becomes his joyless pleasure. Yet at novel's end, unhappiness binds them ever more tightly, having awakened a mutual profound pity.