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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, .1946.

A Miscellany of Literature, Art and Criticism

THE MINT

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Edited by Gooffrey Grigson

This international miscellany of humanism aims to

collect articles, poems and stories which have 'more than the

topicality of the day.

also brought together.

Scholarship and original writing are

Works by the following are included:—

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By a Medical Correspondent

breakdown?

nervous

them and adopt an attitude of self- sufficiency.

He overworks, is over-conscientious, A doctor in the British over-anxious to do well, and can never rest until, suffering corne slight re- Medical Journal describes it a8but or illness he can stand it no the inability of the personality longer and breaks down, to cope with the problems and difficulties of life.

It implies as a whole a failure in response of the personality and not usually

a breakdown due to specifie discases, he says.

The barriers having broken down, all the old foors surge up, and these constitute the symptoms of his break- down.

AND THE WORLD

LAUGHS

Suc: "I wonder if Jack loves me?" Mabel "Of course he does, dear. Why should he make you an excep- tlon?"

A somewhat drunk GI, haled be- fore his superior officer, offered this I excuse: "I got into bad company.

quart of whisky, and my had a three buddies didn't drink."

Mama Skunk was worried because she could never keep track of her two children. They were named In and Out, and whenever In was in. Out was out; and it Out was in. In was out. One day she called Out A nervous breakdown is usually re- garded on being due to overwork. In in to her and told him to no out and It depends on two factors. One is fact, to overwork itself is due to bring in in. So Out went out and "Wonderful!" said Mama Skunk. the severity of the objective strain over-anxiety-against which all his in no time at all he brought in in. The other is the constitutional in-ilfe the patient has struggled.

Since the predisposing cause of the "How, in all that great forest, could ability of the individual to stand the

breakdown lies in early experiences, you find him in so short a time?"

"It was

Out. casy," sald strain.

The instability of the individual is the patient should go back to his ex-

stinct." His In-periences and reorientate himself to- the most important factor. stability may be innate, constitutional wards them and towards life. or acquired

emotional

Mental, faliguo due to conflets and internal stresses »tarts

a breakdown. The conflicts may be between strong emotions like fear and aggressiveness or sex.

But the most deeply rooted ennflict is that between the native Impulses of the natural self and the demands mado upon the individual by society, and the demands that he makes upon himself.

A soldier may be torn between his sense of duty and his fear or worry about his people at home in the bombing.

A woman may experience a conflict between her devotion to her family and her infatuation for another man. What happens? If the natural self wins the result is a delinquency. If it is

is repressed you are liable to a dunlity in the personality with a ro sultant ne

neurosis. The tendency

and to repression dissociation is found to lic in attitudes of mind determined in early childhood, and it is these which pre- dispose an Individual to ncurcals, even though In fact he may never break down.

A fearsome child who has no pro- tection from his fears, must repress

ARE YOU

SURE?

(Answers on Page Five)

1. Name the three principal

races.

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2. What human disease

carried by the African tsetse fly?

3.. What

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Itas country lakes and 80,000 islands?

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4. Name the principal opera

house in London, England.

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5. What do the four suits of

playing cards, symbolise?

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8. In what countries pre geysers

chiefly found?

7. Name the last Aztec emperor

of Mexico.

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8. Name the largest bird in the

world.

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D. What country has the largest

fisheries in Europe?

10. Name the patents of Bir

Galahad.

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11. In aviation what is meant by

"celling zero"?

are the oldest known substances in the world?

12. Where and what

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13. Name the world's largest

auspension bridge.

14. Who searched for the Golden

Fleece?

15. What percent of all paper

made from wood?

10. Who was called the "Madi

Queen of Sweden"?

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HOW GOOD IS YOUR VOCABULARY?

(Answers on Page 8)

Even though the test below is based in largo part on common words, used every day, it may still prove difficult: Many familiar words are not so exactly understood na, we › nssume; we use them confidently but would havo dificulty in defining them.

Pick the word or phrase nearest in meaning to, the key word. Check your choices with the answers on page 8, and look at your vocabulary rating.

(1) dusk (dunk)-A: the darker part of twilight. B; black dark. C: the darker part of dawn. D: the darker part of twilight and dawn.

(2) ruck (ruck)-A: mud. B: the common heid. C; a position in the rear. D: wagon-wheel mark on a soft road.

(3) went (weel)—A: a ridge raised'

on the flesh by a whip or slice. B: a lump raised on the flesh by any blow. C:n bruise. D: an apen sore,

(4) arrant (ar'uhnt)A: foolish. B: wicked. C: out and out. D: con- celted.

(5) humid (hiu'mid)~A: damp. B: worm and damp. C: oppressively hol. D: warm.

(0) dint (dint)--A: because of. B:, force. C: In spite of. D: tenacity. (7) eke (eck)~A: to make additions to. B: to wheedle. C: to be thrifty. D: to prolong

(8) not (off)-A a blockhead or dunce. B: an insulting person. C: a peasant or farm hand. I.:

Blant.

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(9) flotsam (flot'suni)—A: «

wreckage found floating on the sea. B: wreckage washed ashore.: C: goods cast overboard to lighten a vessel in distress. D: wreckage wherever found.

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brindle (brin'd'l)-^i gray. B: having dark streaks or spots m a gray or tawny background. C: brown. D: light yellow.

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(11), hapless (hap’lesi)—At unlucky, B: helpless. C: prono necidents. D; without hope. (12) clinical (klin'i kuhl)mud: ex-

perimental. :D: of or pertain- Ing to a nickbed. C: of or pertaining to a laboratory. D: free medical treatment: (13) motley (molli)—A: ragged. 3; variegated in colour. C: a mob. D: Iqolish,

(14) salubrious (suh tu'bri ua)~~^:

warm: B: sunny. C: calma. D: healthfu

(15) furlong (furlong)-A: a mile. B: half a mile. C: a quarter mile. D: an eighth of a mile. (16) besetting (bec noting-A: habitual. B: worst of all, C: persistently attacking. D:

wicked.

(17) sorco (swah ray)—A: morning

party, B: an afternoon tea. C:

an evening party. D: any kind of gay gathering.

(18) paltry (paw'tri)-A: trushy and contempuble. D: tricky and unfair. C: long delayed. D: Low in number.

According To Culbertson

South made

(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson.)

spectacular bid in to-day's deal-but a little less might have been Impulsiveness profitable!

West, dealer. North-South vulnerable.

park Two sollux, asleep on a bench, had this sign hung on their Icet; "Don't disturb Tho Fleet's All In!"

WEST

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There was a young lady named

Banker,

Who slept while her ship lay, at

anchor,

She awoke in diamoy

When she heard the maté sny,

I Holst up the top-street,

and spanker!"

Noah, after the

flood subsided,

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fortli don't you Ro

and multiply?" asked Noah in a stern voice.

"We can't," moaned one.

adders!"

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EAST 070 #70587

SAKQJ784 00353

SOUTH AKQJ9643

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In apportioning responsibility for stopping one trick too low, it is only. fair to comment that North, with some logic, could have continued

Aa bidding over six spades, matter of fact he took a long time to

pass, but nД hot explained later, he had been afraid that South's bid was based on a very long spade suit that lacked the ace or king.

The real flaw in the bidding was that South rushed matters too much when he jumped to six spades. True, he showed up East's psychic, but that alone could not reassure North, that the spade sult was absolutely solid. It would have been more seruible, if less speck cular, for South merely to four spades, with the full intention. of course, of later bidding at least six spedea when East ran out, as he so obviously would run. Then, It is reasonable to suppose that the

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The bidding: Wrat Narth

PA

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Both

West North

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1 clubs 4 ctoka

3 clubs diamonds

Obviously, South made an over-

Bonth Ext 4'spaces Double Taxe

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If North had the chance to jump

Alva clubs

trick without having to finesse. In from

to six diamonds.

a sense, therefore, East's amusing thus augmenting his previous an- paychle bid of four spades worked, nouncement of great strength, it out, since without it the opponents would not require much stretching "We're grand slam.

might have reached the laydown on South's part to bid the grand

alam.

He adored her and the feeling was Inuptual.

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