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Obvious mental disease is usually detected by local boards. But there are four kinds of mental cases not so often ruled out: 1) psychopaths, 2) men of low-grade mentality, 3) manic depressives, 4) epileptics...
...every few minutes. A dog mistakes the bars of their window for a comfort station. A seasonally unemployed professional footballer sleeps in their kitchenette to avoid his mother-in-law. Sister Ruth interests a magazine editor (Brian Aherne) in her copy and person. Sister Eileen innocently entices into their manic ménage their landlord (George Tobias), a Harpo-Marxian painter with delusions of genius; the Harold-Teenish manager of a drugstore; a crafty reporter (Allyn Joslyn); six lighthearted cadets from the Portuguese merchant marine. Eileen's global charms inspire the sailors to do a mass conga that lands...
...Higher-rent areas are characterized by manic-depressive psychoses-alternate periods of elation and morbid gloom. But manic-depressive insanity occurs everywhere. Probable reason: incipient manic depressives often have a psychotically quickened "drive" which carries them for a while into higher-income groups and hence into better residential districts...
...good story? Do you think traffic policemen have the right attitude toward motorists? Do you like movie heroes?" Studying the responses, Dr. Humm gets a "profile" of an individual showing his self-control, drive, truculence, tendency to daydream, etc. The average person, according to Dr. Humm, has a "normal-manic" temperament, i.e., is emotional but self-controlled...
...radio also kept the Kittredges in a constant state of manic depression. "Neither [Christina] nor Canby was surprised when Hitler took Bohemia and Moravia, for this was what they had predicted when Chamberlain came back from Munich," but "they were numbed." They were shattered when "President Roosevelt recognized Franco the moment Madrid fell-like a man who has taken a physic, as Canby said, and can't wait to get to the bathroom...