Word: neuroticisms
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The story is of Bigger Thomas (Canada Lee), a brooding, violent Negro whose father was killed in a Southern race riot, who lives with his mother, sister and kid brother in one room in the Chicago slums. With his pals he indulges in fantasies of machine-gunning white enemies. Through...
... If a soldier keeps himself and his bunk neat and clean he has nothing to fear from the inspecting officer. If, as the young lady writes, the men all but become neurotic wrecks as the result of an anticipated inspection, then you can bet your last P. X. coupon that...
The word "psychopathic" has been kicked around a good deal by the learned doctors. In The Mask of Sanity, Dr. Cleckley tried to show a class of psychopaths which differs clearly from neurotic alcoholics, psychoneurotics, criminal sex offenders, ordinary criminals, differs also from obvious psychotics or lunatics. The mark of...
There was an exalted memory of Percy's father: "Epstein with his heads neurotic, restless, ugly, is the appropriate portraitist of this generation, but . . . Father . . . would have been at home on the west portal of Chartres with those strong ancients, severe and formidable and full of grace, who guard...
Now we come to inspection. This dandy little item gets the young lads worked up to such a degree of suspense, they all but become neurotic wrecks. After settling everything in apple-pie order in a mad hurry, they wait for hours for the colonel to make his appearance and...