Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prop men of the Harvard Theater Workshop produced halberds and horses on short notice in the past, but the current production of Troilus and Cressida, slated for the boards on December 8, they have run into a stone wall...
...lives in a daydream is a psychotic, suffering from, a psychosis (psychiatrists consider "insanity" an oldfashioned, legal term, without medical meaning). The man who cannot be happy with his environment or himself - who suffers from his own slanted view of the world - is suffering from a psychoneurosis (neurosis for short). A psychotic is much sicker; but both psychotics and neurotics can be cured...
...book that has made the name of Thomas à Kempis more enduring than marble. The Imitation of Christ has probably been translated into more languages than any other book but the Bible (at least eight U.S. publishers have one or more editions currently in print).* It is a short book, simply written. Like the writings of the earliest Christians, it speaks directly to ordinary people, not merely to theologians or philosophers. It is perhaps the nearest, clearest answer that has been made to the simple question: how to be a Christian. In 15th Century Latin or in modern English...
When the American Army drove the Germans out of Italy in 1945, it took among other prisoners Ezra Pound, expatriate poet, radio propagandist for Mussolini and self-made pundit who thought Hitler a "martyr" comparable to Joan of Arc. After a short stay in a prison camp near Pisa, where he continued to write poetry, the aging (63), rheumy-eyed poet was brought back to the U.S. to face treason charges. The case never came to trial; instead he was declared insane, and still languishes in St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington...
...about how Betty succumbed to tuberculosis (in her post-Egg days) and was incarcerated in a grim sanatorium for 8½ months. A whimsical vivisection of almost every organ in the female body, and a description of the life & death around her-"small dry coughs, loose phlegmy coughs, short staccato coughs, long whooping coughs"-it has all the frank appeal of a public hanging...