Word: spastics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Intestinal Troubles. Victims of mucous colitis, spastic colitis, nonspecific ulcerative colitis are submissive, dependent, afraid of crowds. They are overneat, over-conscientious, "soft and weak-willed." Often they are badly adjusted sexually; attacks frequently occur during, or immediately after, honeymoons...
...festival. Composer Bloch, now 67 and clean-shaven, has never written any tunes that are hummed in every U.S. household. But musicians rank him, along with Stravinsky, Hindemith and Schoenberg, as the best of the European expatriates now in the U.S. Bloch knows as much about strident dissonances and spastic rhythms as the next man, but he is their master, not their servant...
...patients were really ill, thinks Pai, and were not just trying a fancy dodge. Cramped writers, he observed, fall into two distinct classes: 1) the tremulous type, whose writing is wavering, generally suffered from severe anxiety, 2) spastic (pinched) or ataxic (jerky) writers were suffering from hysterical neuroses...
Parisians were bewildered because the monkish composer, a devout, 38-year-old Catholic, punctuates his pious music with bird calls and Hindu rhythms. Instead of repose, listeners felt spastic jerkiness; instead of exalting sonorities, they heard grinding dissonance. After a performance of his Three Short Liturgies of the Divine Presence, which is scored (among other things) for a xylophone and two dried gourds with rattling seeds, one Paris critic snorted: "African witchcraft rather than Christian music...
...world had changed; even Paris had changed. And one must be so careful these days; Maxim's manager, uncertain of volatile Parisian reactions, had drawn tight the forbidding metal blinds of the war years. Over the threshold of pleasure, a single electric bulb, flickering with Paris' spastic electric current, lighted strayed revelers through the night...