Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even a topheavy Pakistani victory by seven wickets did not smooth Pakistani feelings-nor did a formal apology by Britain's Deputy High Commissioner J.M.G. James to Governor General (now President) Iskander Mirza, who is also the Pakistani cricket board president. "English players' defeats have upset their mental balance," said Lahore's Civil and Military Gazette. "Britain's sportsmen show irritability, and resort to indecorous behavior in defeat," added the Pakistan Times. At home the English press called the cricketers "graceless boors . . . bad losers . . . bullies." Said the London Times: "Hooliganism has blotted Britain's reputation...
Gary E. Gathman--Lowell House; Chairman, Lowell House Committee; Premed Club; P.B.H.; Mental Hospital Committee; German Club; House Chr. Combined Charities...
...increase in mental discipline, however, should not be the Faculty's only consideration. In medical school, students will face a severe and restrictive discipline. What premeds really need is a chance to dabble in the arts before facing the rigors of medical school. Admittedly, the Biochemistry plan would not deter the study of liberal arts appreciably; Biology concentrators only have to take one half-course more than Biochemists in order to satisfy medical school requirements...
...cases the physical had come first, the researchers found, and had been aggravated by the mental. But in almost as many cases psychic disturbances had led to behavior that produced physical injury, e.g., the passive-aggressive man who wrecked his car and suffered a fractured skull. If this had been his first accident, it might have been chance, but it was his fifth major accident by the age of 22. In at least six cases there was a nervous disorder producing all the signs of bodily illness-except that when the surgeons checked, they could find nothing wrong to operate...
...psychiatry . . . lies the best hope of resolving international tensions and so preventing war. The greatest need is that everybody should reach emotional maturity free from neurotic drives." Congresses of psychiatrists themselves. Dr. Emanuel comments, "are not remarkably free from tensions, nor are the families of psychiatrists notable for their mental health...