Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...existence of a History and Literature Department is eminently desirable, for history is a record of the deeds of men, just as literature is of their thoughts and emotions. Deeds are not intelligible without an understanding of the mental conditions from which they grow while literature, on the other hand, cannot be separated from the social conditions in which it arises. This very justification of the Department shows that there is need for definite courses in the field...
...advance of the school-committee in "crystalizing" his knowledge of the significance of current affairs. At the risk of appearing cynical, one is tempted to suggest that Dr. Wilson overestimates the alertness of the average teacher and, far more important, neglects the capacity for bootless anxiety, which characterizes the mental state, and inspires the interference, of his committeeman...
...Saroyan's stories are concerned with the mental processes of degenerate, perverted, and artistic human beings. They have as their locale, bawdy houses, barber shops, dingy attic rooms, and cafes. The people he tells us about, so lucidly at times, are barbers, who talk of diplomacy, militarism, and conquest; bums who are too dignified to sell postcards; and youths first experiencing the sexual urge...
...forget for a moment, though it is a difficult thing to do, that the author is striving constantly for a style entirely modernistic and subjective you may enjoy these flights of his into the realm of the mental processes. In any case you must road him in small doses in order to properly appreciate his achievement...
...play with." So Judge Johnson also forbade the abortion. The tenor of most of the indignant comments on the Denver case, which rose from all sections of the nation, was that the abortion should have been performed, not perhaps for strictly physical reasons* but because of the emotional, mental and social damage motherhood of this kind may involve...