Word: neuroticisms
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One of the mixed blessings of world leadership is the U.S. preoccupation with its many and varied allies. Around the volatile Italians, the politically neurotic French and the sensitive Spaniards, there is never a dull moment. Even those stout hearts of oak, the British, sometimes lash about and quiver like...
As if to highlight the plight of modern-day humor, the title piece focuses on a psychiatrist and his neurotic patient who stymie each other with the question, "What do you want?" The doctor finally admits that what he really wants is a new wing for his house in the...
At an age when his contemporaries dreamed of becoming cowboys or firemen, seven-year-old Lucas Marsh already knew his life work: he would be a doctor. He was handicapped from the first. Mamma, a neurotic and mystic who believed that only the spirit could heal, hated the very idea...
In the Summer House (by Jane Bowles) takes place on a dreamlike section of the Southern California coast, and contrasts the happy-animal life of a gaggle of Mexicans with the mental distress of half a dozen Americans in just about every stage of neurotic obsession. Widowed Judith Anderson, the...
The richest, most exuberant novel of the year came from Greece, the work of 68-year-old Nikos Kazantzakis, a top candidate for 1952's Nobel Prize. His Zorba the Greek had a picaresque hero who, almost alone in the fiction of 1953, communicated the conviction that it is...