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Maurois seems to think it did. He maintains that sickness "increases the power of analysis" and that Proust's neurotic throwbacks to childish ways were part & parcel of his genius ("To remain a child is to become a poet"). Such a relating of art to neurosis, quite fashionable these days, is only half true and is dangerous on two counts: it confirms the scoffer's prejudice that all artists are nuts anyway, and it caters to the illusion of the idle bohemian who thinks that because he is neurotic he is also talented...
...military college; righteously indignant in one breath and droolingly prurient the next, it read like the notes of a small-town peeper on the broom closet of hell. Some critics went part way with Farrell's estimate of Willingham, but others rebuked the book as a discharge of childish hostility by a very young man. But when the book was twice taken to court for obscenity (and twice acquitted), readers caught the scent. End as a Man sold some 35,000 copies...
...picture scores a clear victory as a depressing document on the Roman terrain, particularly the remains of Mussolini's passion for majestic expanses of concrete. And De Sica's directing of his child star-Staiola's meanderings and scramblings, his thousand & one childish mannerisms, from unbuttoning his pants to his perplexed concentration on the chattering face of an Austrian priest-is worth several admission prices...
...rules which appeared Tuesday morning. The Dean's Office does not threaten students. It expects Harvard students to behave with a reasonable degree of intelligence and sense of responsibility to their college without being "threatened" like schoolboys, and we are rarley disappointed. We have had no trouble from misguided childish pranks by Harvard students at other colleges for many years and I see no reason to expect such trouble this year...
Worse than these administrative sins, however, in the light of popularity, were the childish escapades of the governor and his entourage when they drove around the State in their limousines. Twice, policemen in the procession ahead of Curley were killed in crashes; three deaths were caused directly by men in State cars. Mayor Mansfield of Boston dubbed Curley the "Hit and Run Governor." It was in this connection that one of the most famous of the Curly quips came. A reporter suggested that one of Curley's night trips to a disaster scene during the 1936 floods, was a little...