Word: neuroticisms
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The Rubinsteins drifted around Europe, from Stockholm to Paris to Vienna. On his 15th birthday Serge decided he had an inferiority complex, asked his parents for an appointment with Dr. Alfred Adler, the famed Viennese psychologist, for a birthday present. Since Adler was a responsible physician, the story that Rubinstein...
New Phenomenon. Voluminously voluble, gaunt, hot-eyed, nervous as a neurotic bloodhound, Malraux has an exotic fascination for Frenchmen as an intellectual who is also what they call un homme engage. As a man committed to action, Malraux-believing Communism to be the wave of the future-intrigued in the...
ONE ARM, by Tennessee Williams (211 pp.; New Directions; $4.50). This collection of short stories wears the scent of human garbage as if it were the latest Parisian perfume. Peopled with male and female prostitutes, harridans and homosexuals, the book first appeared in 1948 in a deluxe limited edition of...
Why, then, does the nation seem so divided? Partly, says Griswold, because of a "neurotic obsession" that has been fanned and exploited by opportunistic politicians. "The treatment of the obsession, it seems to me, is obvious. It is to meet the real part of it, the Communist conspiracy, with realistic...
¶S. Z. ("Cuddles") Sakall has a German shepherd, which is so neurotic that he frequently has to be kept under sedatives.