Word: nausea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...write this having just seen the Union's presentation of "Meet John Doe." The infantile reaction of the "Intelligent Harvard men" present leaves me in a state of mental nausea...
...quiz program racks her brains for the name of the Father of His Country. Some soap-opera actors fight out a love crisis ("We are but straws in the wind," the unfaithful husband explains to his wife), their faces embattled in the schizoid struggle between sincerity and nausea which is one of the occupational diseases of soap-opera acting...
...TIME'S cover story last week "narrates the trip of Doña Eva Perón to Spain with such bad taste, stupid style, lack of good behavior, so boorishly in sum that we find ourselves obliged as well-born people to declare our profound contempt, our nausea, not only at the useless falsehoods this narration contains but at its grossness, coarseness, its undissimulated irritation and its lack of respect for a lady, the wife of the chief of a state...
Like Sartre's first novel, La Nausée (Nausea), and his plays (TIME, Dec. 9), The Age of Reason is an attempt to translate philosophy into fiction. The Age of Reason is the first volume of a trilogy which will chart the salvation of contemporary man. In this first installment, however, nobody is saved; the characters are condemned, instead, to simmer in their own existentialist juices-a form of Sartrian purgatory from which they all will presumably be able to free themselves in the other two books...
...them become more or less immune once they get used to flying, and airlines would do well to help them become immune by making it harder to get sick. An estimated one-tenth, whom Dr. McFarland classifies as "usually neurotic or emotionally predisposed to airsickness," never do. "Their nausea is severe, is unrelieved by vomiting, usually lasts throughout the flight, and continues for some time after landing...