Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pride of University of Pennsylvania psychologists because of his speed in solving arithmetical problems in his head. To the Press, however, he is the Philadelphia Pinochle Prodigy. Playing three-handed pinochle with a sly expression which makes him look like Jackie Searl, Prodigy Miller puts his mental agility to good use calculating the cards in his opponents' hands...
...father a raving lunatic. His relations with women, his financial dealings, were truly abominable, but he had been brought up in a harsh school, and the sudden release to such license as the age permitted would have strained better-balanced characters than his. Taking a broad view of the mental and moral infirmities that outraged the Victorians, Authors Sitwell and Barton discover that George possessed one distinction to which Thackeray attached little importance. He was one of the few English kings who was also a patron of the arts. Gay and entertaining, with considerable taste in painting and architecture...
...beliefs as this were inclined to think that they had fallen not only among heathens but also lunatics, and wrote lengthy, sorrowing reports of what they saw and heard. Students of cultural anthropology, however, began to realize that these backward people were not irresponsible children but that their entire mental orientation was as different from civilized man's as though they inhabited another planet. With trained scientists in the field correcting and supplementing the first reports, it became further apparent that the primitive worldview, whatever its logic, was surprisingly consistent...
...Dispositions." This sort of unwitting evocation of magical influences is due to the savage's almost universal belief that mere mental attitudes may disrupt the peaceful course of affairs. He thus pays great attention to what Professor Levy-Bruhl calls dispositions. Quarrels are widely believed to set up baneful influences which may harm the whole tribe. Hence politeness and affability are at a premium. Among some American Indians it is not customary to refuse any gift asked for by a guest, lest his displeasure work some ill. When the Fiji Islanders set out a new turtle net, the head...
...guess that when the President takes his forthcoming swing around the circle he'll set a pace, both mental and physical, that will wear everybody to a frazzle-everybody, that is, save the President...