Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spiegel, 63, a clinical professor at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, measuring the eye roll is no mere cocktail-party game but "a pivotal clinical sign" of how susceptible a person is to being hypnotized. Even more surprising, he says it is also a rough index of some basic personality traits, including suggestibility and gullibility...
Spiegel developed his curious theory in the early '60s, after noting that a woman filmed during a trancelike seizure showed an unusual ability to roll her eyes up and down, while an unhypnotizable male patient showed no eye roll at all. Since then, in his clinical work, he has tested the theory on some 5,000 adults. His finding: the eye-roll scale accurately predicts hypnotizability 75% of the time...
...correlation? According to Spiegel, "Hypnosis is a capacity for attentive, receptive concentration that is inherent in a person. Whatever it is in the brain that governs this capacity governs the degree of eye roll." Spiegel has also found that eye roll is connected to personality. The low scorers ("zeros" and "ones") tend to stress thinking over feeling and are wary, critical folk who love to control people and implement plans. The highly hypnotizable "fours" and "fives" generally feel rather than think. Though they can be very creative, they uncritically accept ideas, trends and leaders, and are strikingly childlike and gullible...
...last decimal point. Last December board members forecast that the real gross national product-that is, total production of goods and service discounted for inflation-would rise during 1977 by 4.8%; when all the numbers are added up, that forecast probably will be close to the bull's-eye. They also predicted that the unemployment rate at the end of 1977 would be 6.9%; the November figure was exactly that...
Resting on four immense ten-story stilts, the new glass-and-aluminum skyscraper is the world's eighth tallest, soaring 915 ft. It is topped by a thrusting 130-ft. wedge angled at 45° to catch sun and moon and every passing eye. Inside, the 59-story building looks as if it might have landed from outer space. Its vital functions are controlled by a battery of electronic mechanisms that, among other things, wash the air and launder the noise of the city with "white sound," an almost imperceptible brrr...