Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your willingness to add your great weight to glamorizing intelligence and memory (Van Doren) should earn you new praises. Look what glamorizing did for sex, athletics and big business. Let us hope it can do the same for mental powers. A great many teachers and "students" are probably adding their thanks to the egghead...
Beyond Reason. The man of science, Psychiatrist Robert Vossmenge, and the man of God, Pastor Kurt Degenbrück, are both attached to a mental clinic in pre-Hitler Germany. Their cases have the garish intimacy of tabloid headlines-an old woman who believes her son is being tortured in the basement, a teen-age boy who shoots and kills his brother "just to see what it felt like." These vignettes, complete and unrelated stories in themselves, are used much like algebraic problems by Novelist Deich to set the doctor and the pastor puzzling over the cube roots of free...
This makes a very nice adventure story, which can easily be read in a couple of hours before going to bed. In this season of headcolds such reading is perhaps a necessary concession to the mental fogginess engendered in the academic world. Certainly "A Far Place" can make no other claims...
...thought, not restrict it. The great value of a university such as Harvard is that it presents many points of view, without attempting to force any single one on its students. By giving its students the opportunity to hear Oppenheimer, the University is only fulfilling its purpose in encouraging mental action and reaction...
Even when companies shy away from formal creativity sessions, they try to foster a relaxed, understanding atmosphere that will help people unlock their mental storehouses. Some 40 colleges currently have courses in creative thought, and thousands of companies are sending their young men back to school. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. has even gone so far as to send a group of executives t.o the University of Pennsylvania to study literature, thus broaden their minds. Dozens of others such as General Motors AC Spark Plug division, General Electric and Boeing Airplane Co. have set up informal courses within the company...