Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Retorted the A. M. A.'s President Dean De Witt Lewis: "I'm wondering whether he [Miller] was told that by the chief psychiatrist in one of those institutions for mental cases he speaks of, or by one of the inmates...
...treatment of Thomas Aquinas in the genial manner of a man who once wrote a history of England without a date. His book is not a biography, for the scant modern knowledge of Aquinas' life could not be expanded even into Mr. Chesterton's format. Nor is it a mental history of Aquinas; Mr. Chesterton cheerfully admits that he knows little of the metaphysics or theology which were the great framework of that history. It is an attempt to form a channel from Thomism to the mind of the modern man, and an attempt to prove, after the channel...
...first of these honors theses, Miss Croman studies the evolution of the novelist Galsworthy "through the interpretative medium of mood and mental attitude." The three chief figures in "The Man of Property" she takes as symbols of certain prime, moving ideas: "The Will to Property," "Beauty, impinging on a possessive world," and "the eternal force of Passion." The tragic clash of these three, in its grimness and covert intensity, is compared to Greek tragedy. How cleverly the authoress has argued her parallel may be seen by this sentence: "An instinctive dread, a premonition of danger, seizes the Chorus (the lesser...
...determine how many of their subjects had actually got jobs as a result of their correspondence study. But they did find that only one in six listed as his chief occupation the field of his study while only one in four had ever been employed in that field. Mental and manual tests indicated that 78% of the students would be misfits if they should succeed in getting the jobs for which they studied...
...stop talking about the morals of the movies,' for morals change and movies change, and the moral viewpoint of yesterday is not the moral viewpoint of today." In addition to all this research one of Mr. Wilton's colleagues has, after long and arduous labors, discovered that the mental age of movie audiences has increased from fourteen to twenty...