Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Writer's cramp is an ailment that has puzzled doctors for more than a century, and it continues to baffle them. The victim of writer's cramp is seized by a strange kind of palsy. He may be able to play the piano or balance a teacup, but as soon as he tries to write, his fingers begin to stutter. Some doctors think that the cramp is an occupational disease brought on by too much writing. They prescribe 1) a long rest from writing, or 2) a change of occupation...
...these prescriptions are wrong, a British expert now reports. M. Narasimha Pai, an Indian-born psychiatrist attached to Britain's Mill Hill and Sutton Emergency Hospitals, has decided that previous investigators were misled by the name of the disease, which is also known as "scrivener's palsy." Writer's cramp, he says, has nothing to do with writers or writing fatigue; it is a symptom of neurosis and may attack anybody...
...British Journal of Mental Science, Pai reports that he has found writer's cramp surprisingly widespread in Britain.* He examined 1,880 psychoneurotic British soldiers and found that 171 had writer's cramp. Only six, all clerks, had done a good deal of writing. Most of the patients developed their symptoms upon being assigned to uncongenial jobs that required some writing...
...there arrives a motion picture that forces one to admit that Twentieth-Century society has developed a magnificent artistic medium, worthy of comparison to Elizabethan drama or Russian fiction of the last century. Perhaps symbolically for our age, its finest examples are not attributable to one man, author, script-writer, producer, director, or the actors. If any of these fail, the movie cannot be first-rate, and that is very likely the most important reason why the percentage of excellent films is so small. "Great Expectations" is a great picture. No one factor made it so. The novel by Dickens...
Died. Albert Ellsworth Thomas, 74, prolific writer of nimble and successful plays (The Big Idea, Come Out of the Kitchen, No More Ladies), onetime 1926-28) chairman of the Pulitzer Prize drama jury; after long illness; in Wakefield...