Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, one little scene-stealer grabbed his own private spotlight and held it right down to the last curtain. He was solemn little Prince Mashhur ibn Saud. 3½, son of the Saudi Arabian King, who had only to blink his liquid brown eyes to evoke cooings and mental chin-chucks across the nation...
...psychotherapy. Even under treatment. Eve Black "came out" and misbehaved occasionally. Batteries of psychological tests showed two distinct personalities, far more sharply differentiated in voice, speech, posture, mannerisms, handwriting and emotions than the most brilliant actress could have portrayed. Yet there was not the faintest suggestion of a mental illness resembling schizophrenia (the so-called "split personality"). Here were two rational personalities inhabiting the same body-though irresponsible Eve Black had some earmarks of a mild psychopath...
Occultist Wiesinger recognizes the possibility of the phenomenon known as "possession," though it is extremely difficult to distinguish from some forms of mental illness such as schizophrenia. He cites as "borderline" the case of Maria Talarico in the town of Catanzaro in southern Italy...
Listening only to the tick of his incredibly accurate mental stopwatch, Sowell glided over the boards, drifting well off the pace. Courtney and the Pioneer Club's Harry Bright drove ahead, hoping to steal the race. But 2½-laps from the tape, Arnie's watch told him it was time. He floated wide on a turn, kicked downhill into his fluid-drive sprint, and the race was over. Sowell was almost 4 yds. in front of Courtney and still moving away when he finished. Time: 1:50.3, a new indoor record, two-tenths of a second faster...
...friends and family of Charles Van Doren, most of the fascination of his mental marathon is not what he says-which is fascinating enough-but the fact that he can say anything at all before the implacable eye of the television camera. "Why, I couldn't say a word up there with those earphones and all," marvels one distinguished Columbia scholar. "I'd come completely unstuck...