Word: neuroticisms
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The most gripping element in the drama, however, is its creation of characters and its treatment of them. The two chief men are debased by the over-whelming catastrophes that hit the family, while a third male is left his ludicrously parasitic self. The mother of the family, however, is...
In life, the Archduke Rudolf was a rake and good amateur naturalist, organized a historical survey of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was rated as a dangerous radical for his anticlerical views. In the person of Charles Boyer he is represented as a handsome neurotic, ridden by court ceremonial, badgered by...
Until this week Mabel Dodge Sterne Luhan had successfully concealed from most readers the fact that the three volumes of her Intimate Memories (Background, European Experiences, Movers and Shakers), most scandalous of contemporary autobiographies, were written at the urge of a moral purpose as lofty as any that ever moved...
Of the four canons living within the Close of Silbury Cathedral, The Canon was short, paunchy, 60-year-old Carmichael, who after 24 years of devoted service embroils the Cathedral in the worst mess that ever rose out of a canon's past. An unbending traditionalist, he fidgets through...
As impressive as anybody along the way were the Chinese "of great leisure and extremely strong nerves," who, despite their screaming anti-Japanese" banners everywhere, treated her with unfailing courtesy. Her concluding thought was that the Chinese "seem to be likely to inherit the earth and go on forever, while...