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...With the breakdown of the father-dominated family and the emancipation of women, Dr. Halliday finds, there has been a significant sexual shift in psychosomatic diseases. In the 19th Century more women than men got ulcers and exophthalmic goiter; since 1900 it has been the other way around, increasingly so. During the late 19th Century, twice as many men as women got diabetes; by the 1930s there were two or three women with diabetes to every male sufferer. Dr. Halliday, who is married and the father of two children, comments: "The personality type of male was apparently becoming in some...
...French provincial town begins writing painfully wellinformed poison-pen letters, signed "The Raven." Gradually, The Raven's malice eats into every chink and crevice in the town's uneasy conscience. By the time the culprit is exposed, the community is on the verge of a collective nervous breakdown...
...greatest American poets. Actually, his poetry was obscure and frequently derivative-lighted by occasional brilliant passages. His fame rests not so much on his actual work as on his standing as a classic example of the frustrated American genius. If a Marxist critic wished for an illustration of the breakdown of culture under capitalism, he could scarcely find a clearer one than the career of Hart Crane...
Hart Crane's mother (he was the only child) divorced her husband, had a nervous breakdown, became an ardent Christian Scientist, exhausted herself working in an antique shop, tried unsuccessfully to compel her son to go to college. His friends were the few emancipated spirits who congregated around Herbert Fletcher's bookshop in Akron, and later the New York and expatriate intellectuals who contributed to the little magazines...
...team's 1 to 0 shutout of Yale at the Arena Saturday night. The incredible goal-tending of Jack Lavalle and Eli Jimmy Burns, combined with the gruelling attacks of both teams and the razor-thin margin of victory, kept 3,170 fans on the verge of a nervous breakdown right down to the final whistle...