Word: neuroticisms
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EAST WIND - Amy Lowell - Houghton Mifflin ($2.25). This second of the three volumes of poems left for posthumous publication by Amy Lowell is as impersonal as the first volume (What's O'Clock?, 1925) was personal. It contains 13 narratives, mostly in the free, conversational verse that Miss...
Many a night James Calisch sat until dawn with young Emanuel Silberstein, who would come around from 57th St. to interrogate and dispute upon the writings of Spinoza, the Jew of Amsterdam; of morbid Schopenhauer, neurotic Nietzsche, recondite Kant. Emanuel was regarded by himself and his family, as a mental...
Some months ago, James Calisch's landlady heard her lodger in an altercation with young Silberstein. "You're a nut!" ejaculated the older man. "What reasons have you for making such a statement?" demanded the youth, with the pedantic inflection of an adolescent philosopher. "Well," began Mr. Calisch...
"Alone in her dismal hotel room, with her small sona neurotic little Hohenzollern, evidencing astounding willfulness for his age-she ... is going on with the suit.
She soon deliberately took another lover, the grossest, most insulting she could find, to torture Christopher. The selection of this man seemed to her a positive inspiration. Christopher's emotional control, bordering on stolidity, was the antithesis of her neurotic nature, which was of a lasciviousness so intense as to...