Word: overwrought
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...Pont (1812-89) had a thing about fences; folks used to say that he would put up a $4,000 enclosure to fence in a $2,000 pasture. And then there was "Uncle Fred" (Alfred Victor du Pont II), who in 1893 was shot to death by an overwrought woman in a Louisville bordello...
HAYDN: THE STURM UND DRANG SYMPHONIES (Vanguard). Haydn was a bit overwrought in the years when he composed these six pivotal symphonies, but one would never know it from these mellow recordings by Antonio Janigro and the Radio Zagreb Symphony Orchestra. All three LPs are superbly recorded, but Janigro mutes the voice of Haydn's turmoil under a soft quilt of woodwinds...
...organized to handle their burgeoning business. Many of them are out of date and ill-equipped, even for treating genuine accident cases. Many are understaffed; often enough the intern on duty is a foreign-born doctor whose language difficulties become almost insurmountable for the patient or his overwrought family. And the emergency room's new popularity is likely to cram it with cases of infectious disease-which is hardly to be desired for the accident victim brought in with an open wound. It is an unhappy situation for patients, doctors and hospitals...
...avant-garde of 20 years ago, Rodin was an overwrought sentimentalist. The great cubist sculptor Jacques Lipchitz (whose own retrospective is finishing a nationwide tour) ruefully recalls how appalled he was when someone told him that old Rodin had liked a Lipchitz sculpture. "What could be so wrong with my little sculpture that Rodin liked it?" he asked. But Lipchitz came to realize that though Rodin dealt with the human figure, he was breaking it down, exploring form, probing its mysteries much as the cubists were. Rodin's Walking Man, thought to be a study...
...overwrought reasons for joining the church, and his equally intense motives for abandoning it, are used to give us a feeling for the narrow, degrading set of experience on which an American Negro must base his most important decisions. Then he tells of the problems that confront a Negro who decides to quit Harlem. He generalizes his own experience into a description of the relationship between a sensitive Negro and the ominous white world that surrounds him, and of Christianity and the Africans who adopted...