Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dementia praecox because it strikes most victims between the "precocious" ages of 18 and 35, called schizophrenia because it reveals a split between the emotional and intellectual activities of the victim, the condition is the greatest mystery of psychiatry. The spirit tries to run away from reality. The tortured soul attempts to hide. The victim loses his will power, his ability to concentrate, his memory, bis judgment. Extreme cases become more abject and helpless than sick infants. About 10,000 of the 40,000 schizophrenic cases who develop in the U. S. each year acquire wild, paranoiac ideas of grandeur...
...life must be recognized; the real rewards go to the innovators for their vision and originality. There is little but the ego of man which is increased by knowledge "of wide surface and small depth", or as President Conant expressed it, "Few of the values which feed the human soul can be found by studying mere information...
...reigned in succession by the wisdom of a woman so able? I wonder that she did not do worse!" The Author- Forty-six-year-old Ralph Roeder was in John R. Tunis' celebrated Class of 1911 at Harvard (TIME, Sept. 14) though he "never spoke to a living soul" while he was there, returned to his native Manhattan to join the Washington Square Players, drove an ambulance in Italy in the War, stage-managed in Paris for Jacques Copeau, returned to the U. S. to act in Greek tragedies, work in a publishing house. Three years ago he published...
BARREN METAL-Naomi Jacob-Macmillan ($2.50). A sentimental family chronicle with an all-Jewish cast of London clothing manufacturers. Beautiful, intuitive, afflicted with a charming lisp, Rachel Pardo struggles for 20 years to save her soul from Husband Meyer's beautifully appointed hell in the West End, succeeds when she goes back to the Ghetto after he is jailed for fraud...
...convinced that where I failed no one could have succeeded," concluded the Prime Minister. "Let no word be spoken that causes pain to any soul and let us not forget today the revered, beloved figure of Queen Mary." The speech also contained that little throb of penitence which has for years been the trademark of every "crisis speech" by Stanley Baldwin. A democratic Prime Minister must undertake no great matter without informing at least three or four principal members of the British Cabinet. Of his approach to Edward VIII on this gravest issue, the Prime Minister told the House...