Word: mental
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Harvard-Radcliffe Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) pickets outside a class taught by Professor of Psychology Richard J. Herrnstein. An article he wrote for the Atlantic Monthly justifies unemployment as the result of an inherited lack of mental ability, their leaflets charge. The protesters enter the lecture hall but do not disrupt his talk...
SENTENCED. JOHN DU PONT, 58, deranged chemical heir who killed an Olympic wrestler last year in a fit of paranoia; to 13 to 30 years in state custody, to be spent in prison or a mental hospital; in Media...
...boring at times," Clarke said. "I do mental exercises like counting heads over and over...
...appeared less often in professional art, until Modernism arrived. There are elements of it in the work of Thomas Cole and in the dark, brooding landscapes of Ralph Blakelock (1847-1919), who was to suffer a depressive breakdown and spend the last 20 years of his life in a mental hospital. But the exemplar of the visionary state was Blakelock's exact contemporary, Albert Pinkham Ryder...
Unlike such capital-intensive alterations as installing ramps or lowering drinking fountains, accommodating the mentally ill in fact often requires little more than an attitude adjustment. The Sears, Roebuck 1996 Work Force report showed that the average cost to the company for such accommodation in 1993-95 was zero. Employees with a learning disability were permitted to work at a slower pace; those with mental illness were offered shorter shifts, lower-stress duties or flexible work hours. According to studies conducted by the Matrix Research Institute in Philadelphia, which specializes in mental-health disorders, the majority of accommodations cost less...