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...Shakespearean canon, "Troilus and Cressida" comes after "Hamlet" and the powerful tragedies and at a time of the moody, enigmatic comedies that are unresolved and express a general distaste for life. There was a time when pedants were convinced that Shakespeare had suffered a nervous breakdown. Romanticists are sure that the Dark Lady of the Sonnets had betrayed him more wantonly than usual, and that, like Jimmy Durante, he was in a mowing mood...
...another Orwellian display of converting failures into successes, the Chinese Communists last week found a bright side even to the breakdown of railroad transportation. Peking's Evening News reported that thousands of passengers had written in declaring their delight in the fact that express trains often made unscheduled stops of 15 minutes or more because the delays give them a chance to get out and perform calisthenics. "After the exercises," women of Chekiang province were quoted, "our limbs feel more relaxed and our brain more sober...
...average in intelligence, but tends to be timid, sensitive, spoiled, and to show other fears and fear reactions, such as night terrors. The mothers tend to be indulgent, overprotective and overanxious." Coddled and shy, the child quickly cultivates an intense dislike for the rigors of school discipline. "The final breakdown," reports the B.M.J., "is occasioned usually by an absence from school on account of illness, a change of school, a change of home, the birth of a sibling, or an illness in the parents. When the time comes for school, he digs in his heels and flatly refuses...
...production at the Charles Playhouse seemed not so much misdirected as undirected, and at the end of the play, when Blanche makes her final retreat out of the real world into the grotesquely refined world of her imagination, the spectator has no sense of the inexorability of her breakdown, no feeling that this is the way it had to be, for Blanche and for the civilization she represents...
...George Anderson, director of Manhattan's Academy of Religion and Mental Health, the breakdown of a minister's wife is most often caused by pressure to conform. "This is compounded by her own guilts and anxieties-guilt over her own shortcomings and her earlier history. Marrying a minister doesn't wipe out either her past or her thoughts." In the view of a Boston psychiatrist, ministers' wives suffer most from a feeling of "abandonment." Several of his patients are up to their ears in church work, using it as a substitute for a personal need that...