Word: neuroticisms
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Psychiatrists missed a fat chance years ago, when a neurotic little house painter held customers in Vienna's cheap restaurants spellbound as he harangued against the Jews. Last week psychiatrists at Manhattan's teeming Bellevue Hospital had what looked like a ghost of that earlier chance. Jew-baiting...
For 22 years Adolf Hitler was a grim, lonely figure, brooding bitterly over the humiliation imposed on him and Germany by the Treaty of Versailles. Like a neurotic who has exposed the source of his own neurosis to himself and dominated it, fortnight ago, when the Germans conquered France and...
Besides their great literary contemporaries, the Lambs were friends with such characters as Thomas Manning, the vagrant Orientalist, who always carried peppers in his pockets; Charles Lloyd, a neurotic Quaker, whose piano thumping drove Charles Lamb to write The Old Familiar Faces; George Dyer, who could never distinguish between prose...
"Grandpop," said George, "Mr. Cottle told us in school yesterday that young men who have passed the age of fourteen either make a vital issue of sex or get neurotic. In my perusal of 'The Truth About '40' in this book I find cross-correlations between family backgrounds and the...
A boy named Parris Mitchell, brought up by his well-to-do French grandmother, senses the snobbery of Kings Row when he sees his schoolmates snub the birthday party of Cassandra Tower, whose strange, brilliant father remains aloof from the town. Later Parris goes to study medicine with Dr. Tower...