Word: tic
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...days and lands him at Duncanford, "the best-run nuthouse in England." There Dick runs the gantlet of tranquillizing drugs, insulin and electric shock treatments and doubletalk ("idealization of the phantasmal reorientation") from one of the "headshrinkers." After two years or so, Dick is released with a nervous tic behind his left ear, and the vaguely damning words "constitutional inferiority" stamped on his army discharge papers. His wife is loyal, but in the outside world his case record makes him as untouchable as an ex-jailbird. His old boss refuses to hire him back. Everywhere he meets "the look" which...
...Ulysses* has long been a touchstone-and a sacred object. Anyone admitting dislike or incomprehension of it is almost automatically drummed out of any self-respecting literary regiment. Now, writing in the New Statesman and Nation, one of the best critics on either side of the Atlan tic has reassessed Ulysses. Says Britain's V. S. Pritchett...
...feel at home among the Irish Catholics in Seattle: there were Protestants and a Jew (a maternal grandmother) in her family. She was no ugly duckling, but seemed to think so. She grew her famous wide smile, which is now, according to a friend, "a sort of tic," but could not charm rich, silly and beautiful convent classmates. They called her "Cye" and it was torture. It must mean something terrible, she thought, and it was not until many years later on a Manhattan street that it occurred to her that it meant "Clever Young...
...record books and play-by-play accounts will tell you that Princeton, with almost double Harvard's yardage, missed a tic when Dick Martin kicked high and wide in the fourth quarter. What these sources will hardly tell is how the Crimson line, literally saturated to the skin with the muddy wet of Soldiers Field, only let up once-and that due to a late substitution penalty. And they will barely reveal how a crushing tackle by Captain Meigs caused Princeton to fumble on its own 22-yard line--setting up the touchdown and subsequent winning extra by Bing Crosby...
...Heard a report on a way to relieve man's most atrocious pain by injecting hot water into a bundle of nerves behind the forehead. Victims of tic douloureux, an excruciating form of neuralgia, said Philadelphia's Neurosurgeon J. Rudolph Jaeger, are often too feeble for radical surgery, and lose their faith in doctors because most medical treatments give only short-lived relief. Under light general anesthesia, a needle is pushed through the cheek to the base of the skull, the surgeon following it by X ray. When it hits the Gasserian ganglion, he injects scalding water...