Word: neuroticisms
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The entire premise of the play is off-base. Ata (Melissa Hambly) is a once-wealthy woman whose only jobs have been to volunteer in and organize charitable events. She has become completely neurotic since her husband left her before the play begins: she feels empathy towards people in most...
Stereotypes riddle the play. That a neurotic, upper-class woman should bond with a crass, foul-mouthed robber (even one who was robbing her apartment at the time) is absurd. The play takes the absurdity to an even further extent with the implausible resolution.
Unfortunately, his insistence on repetition beats his jokes to death. The running gag of the show is the neurotic cockney maid Edith, who is unable to perform her duties at a normal pace. To clear the breakfast trays she needs a running start, and Ruth spends the duration of the...
We're also neurotic and stressed out. People are working longer hours than they did a few decades ago. New technologies have only created tighter and more unreasonable deadlines. The report that might have spent a day or two traveling by mail is now expected to arrive that afternoon by...
The second headline on your story, "The fault, dear Sigmund, may be in our genes," took a potshot at Sigmund Freud. You should not have implied that Freud omitted constitutional factors as a cause of neuroses. Nothing could be further from the truth. Over and over, Freud cited the individual...