Word: neuroticisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jeremy Irons' Henry could be Rees' father. The achievement of Irons and Director Mike Nichols is to secure Henry's foibles in the heart of a mature male. He's a believer who's never lost that lovin' feeling. There is a fierce longing...
EVER SINCE Philip Roth introduced the neurotic, oversexed William Portnoy to the literary world, a band of literateurs has harried him. Reviewers accustomed to propriety panned the book and accused Roth of writing pornography. Zionists and orthodox Jews charged him with betraying his heritage and making a mockery of the...
The lead character is in many ways a proxy for Roth himself. A neurotic Jewish writer, Zuckerman is plagued by the tensions of his past and his career and seeks through sex, analysis and literature the missing element in his life.
Ehrenreich's central thesis is that it was not the feminism of the 1960s at all that provoked this counter-revolt. Instead, a male revolt, or "flight from commitment," had begun a decade before in the form of the Beat movement; which responded to the rampant conformity of the '50s...
The botched invasion also revealed an attractive trait in Kennedy: an openness and candor, and a freedom from that neurotic, squirming evasiveness, the deflected gaze or outright mendacity, that one came to expect from one or two subsequent occupants of the White House. Kennedy made no effort to escape blame...