Word: mental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every satirical revue can find two pleasant new ways of ribbing Hollywood: once in a studio scene where a trained gorilla seems, by comparison with the leading lady, a mental Einstein; and once when three stars who proved box-office as slatterns (Olivia de Havilland, Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Wyman) chant their triumphal formula: Be a mess, be a mess, be a mess! And not many revues can offer two full-length parodies that hit at least as many right notes as wrong ones: a musical-comedy Hamlet (with Dick Sykes), which has the good sense to swipe its music...
...turn out to be the most imposing theological work of modern times. But Calvinist Barth is more than a theologian's theologian; he can also write brilliantly for laymen. Readers who are not frightened away by the dry crackle of its title will find Christian challenge and mental stimulus in a new Barth book published last week, Dogmatics in Outline (Philosophical Library...
Still insisting that she loved her husband, Joyce decided that she had to part from him forever to get her health back. Refusing to charge mental cruelty ("He was a fine boy and a wonderful husband"), she sued for divorce on the ground that she was allergic to her husband. In Los Angeles, Superior Judge Ray Brockmann was afraid that to grant a divorce on such a ground would set a ticklish precedent...
Injuries here and a good team at Columbia don't make a happy picture for the next five days. But there seems to be no mental hangover at all from the transcontinental headache--and Art Valpey is still going on his policy of last year, as restated last night: "We played Stanford last Saturday. We play one this Saturday, and next Saturday, and every week after that--one at a time...
...mathematical and material, have of course played a considerable role in general physiology,--as aids to the clarification and the concreteness of thinking, and as springboards for new experiments. Somewhat crudely put, but not unfairly the question has arisen: Do complex, fast, computation devices provide an effective model of mental processes, or even of one general class of human cerebral operations?--even to the extent that such machines, with developments of kinds now foreseeable, may be used to serve as surrogate for human decisions or actions...