Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They say he's a millionaire after all those movies. Not so, insists California's Republican Governor Ronald Reagan, and to prove it, said he could not scrape up the dough to buy the house he has been renting in Sacramento. His lease was running out, and the landlord wanted him to get up the $150,000 purchase price or get out by April 1. To the rescue came 14 citizens who bought the house, then leased it back to Reagan at his normal $1,250-a-month rent. California Democrats were so touched they organized a "Bundles...
...Such professional disagreement does nothing to enhance the layman's opinion of psychiatry and its related fields. Nor does the fact that psychiatrists in the witness chair frequently couch their findings in language that either boggles the layman's mind or defies surface credibility. Even highly respected California Psychiatrist Bernard L. Diamond, key defense witness last week at the Sirhan trial, admitted that the jury might have trouble believing his testimony that Sirhan killed Robert Kennedy while in a self-induced hypnotic trance. To the layman, this would be an "absurd, preposterous story, unlikely and incredible," he allowed...
...give an opinion of a man's mental state, they bridle at being asked to say whether a man should be blamed for a specific act, since this goes well beyond the frontiers of their expertise. Frederick Hacker, a psychiatrist who teaches at the University of Southern California's law center, expresses a common professional view when he says " 'Should we blame him?' is a moral question, not a medical question...
...bees. Roman poetry. What do they have in common? In one way or another, these and many more creations of nature or works of man all seem to be related to a sequence of numbers named for 13th century Mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci. The earnest mathematics buffs of the California-based Fibonacci Association keep examining the phenomenon. The more they investigate, members insist, the more convinced they become that Fibonacci numbers pervade the world...
...militant atheism may be on the wane, but to some appalled and devout Christians, unbelief seems ascendant, and Antichrist just around the corner. The trouble with the image, according to an international symposium on unbelief last week, is that it is all wrong. "The modern world," declared University of California Sociologist Robert N. Bellah without irony, "is as alive with religious possibility as any epoch in human history...