Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost certain that the man who will be illumined by the big G.O.P. bolt in next week's gubernatorial primaries is low-voltage incumbent C. (for nothing) William O'Neill, who is mending political fences and spending $750,000,000 for such public works as highways and mental hospitals. But standing by in case lightning turns fickle is Cincinnati Councilman Charles Phelps Taft, 60, brother of the late Senator Robert Alphonso Taft. Charlie Taft filed as a last-minute fill-in candidate when O'Neill suffered a winter heart attack (TIME, Feb. 10). But when the governor...
...deepest Bronx stands a six-story accretion of bile-colored brick, too ugly to be a mental hospital or a tannery. It is the Bronx High School of Science, and it is a nationally famed rookery for genius. The median IQ of its students is about 135, but in some classes the average runs to 145 or more. If training brains is what high schools are for, the Bronx school may be the best in the country; in 1956 and 1957, students at "Science" won a total of eleven National Merit Scholarships, more than any other high school...
Last week, his flaming red beard turned white after twelve years' confinement in a District of Columbia mental hospital, 72-year-old Poet Ezra Pound heard himself adjudged incurably insane, but harmless enough to go free. So ruling on the motion, which had the consent of the U.S. Attorney General, Judge Bolitha J. Laws of the Federal District Court in Washington dismissed the U.S. indictment voted against Pound for his pro-Fascist, anti-Semitic broadcasts in Italy on behalf of Mussolini during World War II and freed the arrogant, warped old man to spend the rest of his senescence...
Even with its too-glib identification of mental maturity with success and conformity, the movie is as good as the novel. Gene Kelly sings and dances too well to be a convincing second-rater, but he gives an agile performance as the camp entertainment director. As schmalzy Uncle Samson, Ed Wynn gets a few laughs, and Claire Trevor is sharp and clear as the irritating but well-meaning mother. Natalie Wood, a great beauty, is something less than a great actress. Her most believable moment comes when Marjorie, despairing of Broadway acting fame, says mechanically: "Sometimes I think...
Last week the University of Oklahoma Hospitals reported that rarely in medical annals has the poignant phenomenon of false pregnancy-pseudocyesis-survived such odds of matter over mind. Pseudocyesis is older than Hippocrates, has affected subjects from seven to 79. Modern medicine knows it as a mental condition, arising from emotional needs so intense that they lead to suppression of menstruation, distention of the abdomen, enlargement of the breasts, and morning nausea. Most cases involve psychotic women with a feeble grasp of reality. But this patient was not psychotic. Her perceptions were normal; she knew all along that the operation...