Word: mental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sportswriter of reasonably sound mental processes could possibly choose Brown to beat a Bob Blackman team. But, you say, this is no ordinary Blackman team. Ah, I say, true, the Big Green has trouble, but Brown is as bad as always. In other words, this can't conceivably be called a tossup because Dartmouth never loses and Brown never wins. I'm from Providence: Brown 13, Dartmouth...
...power. Food has no interest for him: he will eat anything, so long as it is smothered in ketchup. He is never without a cigar, but he cannot say what brand he is smoking at any given moment. He does not drink: alcohol, he says, "wastes your physical and mental energy." His dress is nondescript: always a white shirt and a faintly iridescent black suit. He has no hobbies and no interest in material possessions (he claims assets of $77,000). Aboard his campaign plane, he spends most of his time staring stolidly out the window, neither reading nor talking...
...Though the California law has since been liberalized, it permits abortions only in cases of rape, incest or clear danger to the mother's mental as well as physical health...
Charly is an odd little movie about mental retardation and the dangers of all-conquering science, done with a dash of whimsy. It sounds like an impossible combination, and in fact it is. Cliff Robertson plays the hero, a mugging, clowning, saintly fool so retarded mentally that he cannot write his own name correctly. He agrees to a brain operation that will spark his intelligence. Almost overnight, Charly is transformed into a debonair, Shakespeare-quoting sage who knocks off philosophy, calculus and microbiology with dazzling ease. Yet the experiment has a hitch: Charly has fallen in love with his teacher...
...girls are moving to other brick dorms rather than into off-campus houses," Carolyn Buhl, head resident of Holmes, said yesterday. Two girls have moved to Barnard, two to Eliot, two to Jordan W, five to Bertram, one to Briggs, and one to Wellmet, a half-way house for mental patients. These dorms are all much smaller than Holmes...