Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the city of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective. . . . Los Angeles is the source and home of more political, economic and religious idiocy than all the rest of the country together...
Since then he became activity interested in Dr. Rhine's mental telepathy experiments at Duke and has encouraged all work in ESP, extra-sensory perception...
Going on to say that "Brothers Karamazov" is the greatest of all Dostoievsky's novels, he pointed out how excellently the split personality of the author is portrayed in Ivan's mental struggle to reconcile the suffering of the world with...
Beethoven's Second Symphony in D major begins the program. It was written at a time when the composer was undergoing physical and mental suffering in Heiligenstadt, where he had been sent because of his deafness. The first movement is full of outbursts and sudden silences in marked contract with the moral elevation of the second. The scherzo and finale show Beethoven's mischief and humor, racing as they do to a strange and noisy conclusion...
Died. Seiji Noma, 59, Japanese magazine tycoon, publisher of the daily Hochi Shimbun ("Intelligence Newspaper'') and nine magazines with a combined circulation of over 10,000,000, author of numerous tracts and autobiographical sketches (Secrets of Success in Life, Talks on Mental Training, Noma of Japan); of heart disease; in Tokyo...