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...Amber. A big movie hit was Love Letters, a romance about amnesia. A psychologist claimed that Superman provided a beneficent Aristotelian catharsis ; a Jesuit saw in him a fascist archetype. Young girls tried to look like Bacall with a dash of Hepburn. Their elders went in for cosmetics with manic names like Fatal Apple and Havoc. They also favored detachable daintiness features and phantom crotches. In ads as expressive as dreams, fathers forfeited their children's love because of denture breath, and women exclaimed: "Don't expect me to marry you with a mouthful of cavities...
...once was a Lieutenant named House. We called him Flop. Not to his face, of course, but he probably got the ideas, and we certainly did. It was not too funny, but good for our battered Egos. Then there was one from Old Nassau (a fine example of the manic depressive among College Men At War) whom we thought should be called Tiger...
...been my misfortune to suffer from a manic-depressive temperament for most of my existence. It has been like walking over a level country scored by deep gullies. . . . Circumstances . . . brought on an attack of depression from which I seemed unable to extricate myself unaided. ... [A specialist] prescribed a course of Electrical Convulsant Therapy...
...beginning, few men who wrote the news, and fewer still who broadcast it, could resist the purple technique of dire warnings, manic-depressive cycles, sweeping prognostications. Many a news commentator offered his audience little more than a 15-minute nervous breakdown. Not so Elmer Davis. His voice was calm, incisive, with a Hoosier twang as reassuring as Thanksgiving, as shrewd as a small-town banker. (He did not at once recognize his voice's value, offered to take speaking lessons; CBS officials fortunately knew better.) He never interpreted, colored or predicted: the grist from his mill was fact, ground...
...manic depressive between attacks of depression or elation may fool an Army psychiatrist on a quick test. But a draft board member who remembers how George sometimes got so blue that he never went out, sometimes got so high that he ran himself and his relatives into debt on a buying spree, can save the Army & Navy lot of trouble by insisting that George be kept at home...