Word: aphasia
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According to Butterfield the two Princeton professors, feeling secretly inferior, took refuge subconsciously in aphasia to remove their abulia. They tried to rid themselves of their inferior feeling and increase their inferior felling and increase their own ego by calling Princeton men, "Style-setting, smooth, gentlemanly, loyal-to-college, and socialite...
...Impairment of abstraction in patients with lesions of the brain cortex; the significance of abstraction for normal life"; "Amnesic aphasia; the problem of the meaning of words"; "The patient's adaptation to his defects; the problem of coming to terms with the surrounding world"; "Organization of the personality"; "The individual and his relationship with others"; "The nature of man; skepticism and egoism evaluated...
Signs. Ways of recognizing old age: headaches, vertigo, apoplectic attacks, convulsions, sudden and profound lapses of memory, confusion, restlessness, aphasia, physical disability, inability to assimilate new ideas (misoneism, neophobia). (Menas S. Gregory of Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan...
...Jimmie Gubbins, reported dead by the indefatigable War Office, returns to Lunnon with his American pal, equally dead, and wanted besides in America for embezzlement (of which, strange to say, he is really guilty); with them comes a third pal, the unknown and unknowing Spoofy, a victim of gas aphasia with a penchant for "lifting". From this combination, aided by convenient coincidences, innumerable droll situations arise, genuinely comic, of the type not wit but humor. In fact the play depends little on its lines; it is from character, incident, and pure stage effect that the author, Frederick Isham, has gleaned...
...element New York and interpret it as an innate of Quakerism in your ancestry, smile and plagiarize the subtle wit of the baseball expert. And when your neighbor refuses to be interested in the popular movement, be certain that he must have a species of baseball aphasia...