Word: mental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neglected for years. The most dramatic improvement was displayed by patients with moderately severe disease. First they regained the ability to make voluntary movements, next their rigidity was relieved, and finally tremor decreased. Inability to speak, poor articulation, excessive sweating, weeping and urinary disorders were "strikingly improved," as were mental attitudes. Some patients who had been apathetic and vague showed an "awakening intellect" with better memory and alertness. Several who had not been able to get out of a wheelchair unaided or to walk without fall ing can now do both...
Play was and is vital for John. The emotional problems of his childhood remain. He is still moody, and, according to his aunt, still never shows emotion. John most of all needs the other Beatles to preserve his mental equilibrium. A constant complaint of his wife was the importance of the other Beatles in his life. He will not even consider a vacation without his "mates," his "Beatle buddies." When they momentarily parted ways, after the touring period was over, John was desperately unhappy. "I did try to go my own way...I had a few good laughs and games...
...young historian born during World War II, I had never really been able to form a mental picture of the way the Nazi storm troopers came to power in Hitler's Germany. After watching the scenes of the brutal attacks by the Chicago police on the peace demonstrators, I think I know what that tyranny must have been like. Mayor Daley's inhuman repression was a blot on the fabric of human dignity. Daley for anti-Man of the Year...
...Player. Is Wolf God? Or merely man trying to spell God with the wrong mental blocks? Either, or both, is possible. Wolf's academy seems a splendid microcosm for mirroring a civilization and its discontents. Unhappily, as the book progresses, Stern slights the academy in favor of a labyrinthine exploration of Wolf's hang-ups. To the useful tale of his youth, Stern ties a string of current circumstances, including a preposterously pregnant ex-wife and a mad film director whose sole purpose is to prove that God, man and Wolf are all prisoners of their past...
Exhibit B: The Killing Game. A husband-and-wife team (Jean-Pierre Cassel and Claudine Auger) manufacture Superman-style comic strips for a living, but run out of super ideas. Just a pair of fun-loving kids, they hang around the studio playing with their mental blocks until a wealthy Swiss named Bob (Michel Duchaussoy) invites them to his chalet for a stay. What starts out as kicky soon becomes sicky. Bob is a paranoid who imagines that an organization is out to expunge him. Unfortunately, it is all in his imagination, and to comfort himself he zooms about...