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...successful businessman, after meeting a series of setbacks, develops crotchets and then suddenly goes to pieces, even his physician will call his condition a nervous breakdown. Technically the businessman is suffering from a neurosis. He is not mad. Nor is he apt to go insane. His inability to cope with people and circumstances has thrown him into a complex mental-emotional turmoil and shaken his entire personality. With a patient, learned psychiatrist as his guide he may clamber out of the debacle and regain a stout hold on life. But the paths he takes must be peculiarly...
...hole in the wall, or getting the windows washed, it is a distinct effort, like climbing a hill. . . ." When she can occasionally take a day in bed with an incipient cold, it is a great relief. "Nothing to do for a whole day-not to have to cope! I am able to cope, and one has to in this country; but I get tired of it, sometimes. I am not a born coper, like Evangeline; I have had to learn to do it." Only too often she has to ring the buzzer for Mrs. Gonzales or send...
...themselves The Nudist Theatre Guild recruited a few professional actors and put on a half-clothed version of the old stock company chestnut, retitled The Girl from Childs in 1950. Beforehand the director had announced: "Serious [i. e., stark naked] presentation is not possible at present. We have to cope with the law. The cast will wear as little as possible." The pressagent said: "As was the case when Columbus spoke of a new route to India, tremendous obstacles have been placed in the way of the new enterprise. . . . protests. . . . boycott. . . . We have refused to be intimidated." Hefty Heroine Theodora...
...advice to be found is in the department itself, where the chairman and senior tutor act in the capacity of "contact men." However, if all students who should consult them for one reason or another, did so, the chairmen and senior tutors would have little time left to cope with their many other important duties...
...Miss Oliver among its occupants, one of the other passengers is found to have died on route. Miss Oliver, refusing to accept heart failure as an explanation, sets out to discover which one of her fellow-passengers is guilty of the murder. As a lady-detective, she has to cope with a disappearing body, a poison flask, poison cigarettes, and James Gleason, a New York cop who is her partner in detection...