Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horrendous as it seems in type. A schizoid is a "split personality." He has subtle conflicts among the psychic components of his personality. A manic is a moody person, one subject to fits of exaltation and depression. When a manic or a schizoid or any type of mental aberration annoys his neighbors, they call him crazy and have him locked up. Yet there is no perfectly sane person on earth. Sanity is merely the general average of a community's general behavior...
...touching on the science and duty of ethics. . . . "In general, to promote among Catholic members of the profession such solidarity as may be advantageous to both religion and the profession, [as] medical certification in cases of the so-called miracles, the question of sterilizing the criminally insane, race suicide, mental and spiritual healing cults, the relations of science to the Church, the attitude of the Church toward expectant motherhood, and toward the matter of responsibility for crime...
...will vividly remember its Grand Old Man? his Thursday evenings at-home in a big firelit living room which he specially rebuilt to make room for more friends and conversation; the adult atmosphere he fostered on the campus ("College men should marry college women, as they are more nearly mental equals. ... A man sees the best women he'll ever see while in college"); his word-coining ("quacktitioner," "pluviculture," "sciosophy" meaning organized ignorance); his abhorrence of liquor, tobacco, ignorance, arrogance, vulgarity (he said some people should write a "V" before their names); a fine old Tolstoyan sitting...
Steel's Voice? As remarkable as the change of crude ore to polished steel has been the mental metamorphosis of President James Augustine Farrell of U. S. Steel Corp. in the past fortnight. Two weeks ago at the American Iron & Steel Institute meeting he spoke in a frank, uncompromising manner which was bearishly received (TIME, June 1). Three days later he made a radio speech telling of prosperity soon to come. At the Council he spoke once more. Waving the Tariff debate aside as "academic," he insisted that commodity prices must rise before recovery, but that "no one contemplating...
...required to take the courses in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Evidence, and Criminology. Six other full-year courses will be required, one in each of six out of eight major divisions. These divisions are: modern government; sociology, social pathology and social ethics; anthropology; psychology; abnormal psychology and psychopathology; mental hygiene and the measurement of intelligence; philosophy and technique of social case work; and technique of social research