Word: schizophrenia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese who must put forth this supreme effort, however, have first to conquer their national schizophrenia, to achieve a union between the descendants of Hideyoshi and Ieyasu. Osaka and Nagoya must somehow be put together if Japan is to survive...
...Schizophrenia? A grey-haired, owl-beaked dynamo of a man who rises at 4 a.m. and has never, since the age of eight, doubted his own mission in life, Neutra takes great satisfaction at the advance of modern designing in all fields. His impatience is with those who come to the new faith haltingly. In his softly accented English he complains...
...person drives home from a modern office building in a 1949 Studebaker into a tairy-tale garage with artificially caved-in rafters-a hut of the witch in the woods where the babes got lost! Is there nothing wrong with it, this architectural schizophrenia...
Many commentators on Strindberg have found everything from surrealism to schizophrenia in his life & work. But he was, after all, just a son of the quiet old 19th Century...
Some Cabinet heads also seemed to be suffering from a mild political schizophrenia, unhappily trapped between their own ideas and loyalty to the Administration. The Senate was heading in two directions at once-one committee was investigating the cause of high prices and another the cause of falling prices. Meanwhile, except for a few aching spots here & there, the patient seemed to be generally enjoying the situation. Prices were lower than they had been for months, and a man with a job could buy a steak again, and an egg for his beer if he liked it that...