Word: phobic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. William Ellery Leonard, 68, longtime agoraphobiac, poet (Two Lives), professor of English at the University of Wisconsin; of a heart ailment; in Madison. In his autobiography (The Locomotive God), he revealed that his terror of travel, which kept him locked in a "phobic prison" of five campus blocks, traced back to a roaring locomotive that scared the be-junior out of him when he was two. In 1935 his third wife (Coed Grace Golden) led him out of sight of his home-to walk a fearful eight blocks to Madison's Capitol Square. When she divorced...
...Guide for the Bedevilled is written with ample hatred. Author Hecht's love for the Jews is expressed in phobic language suggestive of Nazi Julius Streicher's obscene anti-Jewish paper, Der Stürmer. Hechtic sample: Anti-Semites are "Spiritual harelips, tormented homosexuals, lonely sadists . . . bile peddlers . . . invalids whose . . . bladders drip and whose hearts are a sackful of worms . . . religious zanies who woo God by spitting in His eye . . . mincing and bepimpled, clapper-tongued and swivel-brained . . . lame ducks...
...tall, white-haired Poet-Professor William Ellery Leonard (TheLocomotive God, A Son of Earth) came his 65th birthday and opportunity to retire from his chair in English at the University of Wisconsin. Locked in his "phobic prison" of six campus blocks by an ineluctable terror of distance (caused, he says, by a locomotive which roared at him when he was two), there was not much that Agoraphobe Leonard could do about it. Sighed he philosophically: "I plan to go on with my teaching. I feel well. I feel the university needs...