Word: neuroticisms
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Unhappy Husbands tend to dislike foreigners, sick people, household pets, gold teeth, athletic directors, educational cinemas. They incline to be irritable, neurotic, seclusive, but are lonely less frequently than divorced men. They want steady, permanent work, have less initiative, resolution and self-confidence than the other groups, but like change...
Unhappy Wives dislike being watched. They find their advice is seldom asked. They prefer easy jobs to hard jobs, get to work late, neglect details, are careless with their belongings. They incline to daydream, have "useless thoughts," feel inferior, have dizzy spells, regard themselves as nervous. They dislike to lend...
Catherine the Great was not a Russian nor was her name Catherine. Born Sophia Augusta Frederica, the unconsidered daughter of a German princeling, she was brought up to be a pawn of European diplomacy; at 14 she was sent to Russia to marry her third cousin, Grand Duke Peter (half...
Producer Zanuck's mistake about his motive for producing Les Miserables can be excused since neither he nor his associates made any more. Richard Boleslawski, under no illusions as to the material with which he was working, surrounds the action of the picture with rich and sulphurous gloom. Fredric...
Chief divergence: "Psychoanalysis aims to discover the causes back of the symptoms and must do that to be successful, whereas suggestion, not directly concerned with 'why,' simply commands the symptoms to disappear, ignoring the causes. If the patient believes strongly enough in the doctor or the treatment, suggestion...