Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This revelation is most encouraging. It refutes the charge, maliciously advanced in certain quarters, that the Senator from Wisconsin appealed especially to "cracked" intellectuals and blatant know-nothings. Should this day prove one of shattered hopes, Progressives will take what comfort they can from this vindication of their mental balance...
Johnson was backed by persons believing in his honesty, simplicity, pertinacity. Backers of Schall made a butt of Johnson's notorious difficulties of speech and leisurely mental processes. Republican buttons appeared: "The joke has gone far enough"; "Schall is blind,* but Magnus is dumb"; and Schall's affliction was said to be gaining him both sympathy and curiosity. Decidedly close voting was expected; but, no matter who won, it was certain that the junior Senator from Minnesota would be an insurgent. Shrewd, with a tendency toward tartness, Schall is but a nominal Republican...
Stark Young?"Rhythm and color in little frames and patterns from the classical tradition. ... A kind of sporting mental delight in hearing Mme. Simone take the soaring speeches provided for her, to see with what attack she dispatches them one after another, like walking a tight rope through a heavenly grammar...
Notorious difficulties of speech and leisurely mental processes...
...unconscious mind. Freud, in his Interpretation of Dreams, goes deeply into the whole subject and, as he almost always uses his own dreams as examples, the book is also an autobiography. In theory, psychoanalysis is the philosophy of the unconscious mind; in practice it is a means by which mental disorders can be cured...