Word: spells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told, "Yes, I'm sad because I can't stop crying." The doctor goes on: "Are you crying because you're sad?" The patient replies: "No, I'm not sad." Dr. Diller tells such a patient that when he feels a crying spell coming on, he should grip his wheelchair tightly with his good hand. By some unexplained crossover within the brain, the motor activity of the muscles is often a satisfactory substitute for crying. These crossovers and feedbacks between physical movements and processes that appear to be purely mental are as subtle as they...
...middle of the night, then wander down to a restaurant in Les Halles and eat platters of sea urchins fresh from the shore. Such excursions seemed enriching, and by the night of his first concert, Richter was ready with more than just music. Hoping to cast a sympathetic spell for his program of Chopin and Schumann, Richter adorned the Salle Gaveau stage with flowers, tapestries and a battalion of immense candelabra-a naive little gesture that welcomed disaster by suggesting that the spirit of Liberace dwelt in the room beside...
...sent to "secondary modern" schools set up by the 1944 act. Stripped of grammar-level minds, such schools are often semi-vocational institutions that cannot offer training for even the ordinary GCE. Parents and children loudly call them "dumping grounds for duds." Class-conscious Britons feel that "dud" schools spell failure, not to mention the danger of a lower-class accent for their children. To avoid eleven-plus disaster, parents lavish prizes of cash, bicycles and transistor radios on the kids to make them cram harder. Recalling her mother's expression when she failed, one girl says: "I might...
Lebensraum with a View. Haunting Hess's mind was a compulsive fear and hatred of Communist Russia. For years Hess was under the spell of Professor Karl Haushofer, the geopolitical genius of Naziism who provided Hitler with his slogan of Lebensraum as a pretext for aggression. Hitler was parroting Haushofer when, in Mein Kampf, he wrote of the absolute need to avoid war on two fronts. But the success of the German armies intoxicated him, and he became more and more intent on attacking Russia. In the months before the flight, Haushofer kept telling the impressionable Hess that...
Underwood's figures give a first impression of having been created by a slightly dotty humorist. They cavort and prance, leap and fly, as if under the spell of a pleasantly chaotic orchestra. At times the rhythms become so frenetic that the small figures look as if they might shake themselves apart. Yet the surface humor quickly peels away to reveal more serious intentions underneath. Underwood's sculptures are expressions of ideas, some of which he transforms into dances of joy and some into gestures of despair...