Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after suing Movie Producer Sid (A Star Is Born) Luff for divorce (TIME, Feb. 13), cooled off, called the calling-off off. Breaking the news to the world in time-honored Hollywood fashion, Judy rang up Veteran Gossipist Louella O. Parsons, confided that Luft was not guilty of "extreme mental cruelty" as charged, added: "I thought something that wasn't true...
...Mental illness in a child often seems more strangely frightening than mental illness in an adult. An emotionally disturbed child is far more likely than an adult to act out his hostile and aggressive impulses, instead of merely talking them out, because deeds are more natural to him than words. In a mental hospital this sometimes makes the child patient* a demon of destructiveness, and many institutions refuse to accept...
Though it may be bad sportsmanship--and most hecklers will admit it--goaliebaiting is a psychological art. Playing a good game in the goal depends almost as much on mental attitude as on physical ability...
...although originally planned for exclusive use by the Mental Hospitals Committee, will be at the disposal of all divisions of Brooks House. It will be used to drive volunteers to the mental hospitals, to transport tutors to the prisons, and will help in fund-raising campaigns...
...dies, the division is apt to downgrade his post to an associate professorship, thus making proper replacement even more difficult than it would be normally. "If the librarian requires top-level professional assistants," says Mather, "he will be told by the division that he cannot have them because the mental hospitals do not have assistants in their libraries. When a professorship becomes vacant in the history department, and we want to use the money for that professorship to improve the geology department, we cannot do so if the division does not approve. And usually it doesn...