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And a vibrant story is called for, since Middle of the Night is less a tale of December and May than of December and March. The stormy, immature, unhappily married heroine is a full-fledged neurotic, so that Middle of the Night concerns a problem personality as well as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Feb. 20, 1956 | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

Exit, Empire. Widmerpool, however, is in the midst of the Acceptance World without understanding it. At the Old School's annual Old Boys' dinner, Widmerpool, as the man of the '30s, horrifies all by making a long, uninvited speech on economics. The old housemaster, a neurotic, twisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Corpse in the Garden | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

In a dark corner in a large cage in a Pittsburgh zoo sits Jambo. He huddles beneath a blanket with only his eyes staring glumly out to greet the world. His eyes are deep brown with dark rings beneath them. His entire appearance is extraordinarily melancholy--especially for a gorilla...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Addled Anthropoid | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

To brand a poor helpless gorilla "neurotic" seems rather cruel. But experts from the Highland Park Zoo and the Bronx Zoo have officially concluded that Jambo's misery stems from a psychosomatic condition. Having taken X-rays, blood tests, and chest thumpings, the doctors declared that all Jumbo really needs...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Addled Anthropoid | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

Expressionism is know for its despair, sometimes impressively tragic, at other times excessively neurotic or sentimental. It is a style that conveys deep emotional reaction to experience. It is never merely pretty and rarely intellectually sterile. This exhibit shows again that Kokoschka is one of its greatest exponents.

Author: By Lowell J. Rubin, | Title: From Kokoschka to Jennerjahn | 1/25/1956 | See Source »

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