Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fourth in both per capita and median family income. But its tradition of politically powerful counties has tended to emphasize local rule to the detriment of that wielded from the statehouse in Trenton, and New Jersey has paid a high price for its localism. Higher education, public health and mental institutions suffer from inadequate funding. The state bears only 28.7% of the cost of local education, compared with the national average of 43%. Half the public money spent in the state is raised at the local level, primarily through real estate taxes. Affluent towns end up with the lion...
...seem to be blocking up the corporate arteries." More than ever before, these middle-aged middle managers are being replaced by younger ones. The psychological toll, Jennings adds, is severe. "This is not part of the life-style for a middle-management person. It is literally a period of mental shock. They wonder...
...says he would prefer to see volunteers working on research and political projects, such as lobbying for the bill now before the state legislature that would take SDPs out of the prison and place them in mental hospitals...
...never heard a man on the phone go on like that. He said, 'Anything that's good for Anna is good; I'll do anything to help her.' " Mills did not specify details because, he told Moore, "I can't make any mental decisions for three weeks." Meanwhile, Anna is trying to figure out how to pursue her faltering show business career. Said Moore: "She's going to stay away a little from stripping...
...some critics said. After creating the wily priest and the slandering lawyer in Tiny Alice, the play that immediately followed Virginia Woolf, Albee no longer seemed able to invent any characters that possessed dramatic vigor. They all appeared to be suffering from acute spinal inertia and total mental ennui. Finally, he largely abandoned his strong suit, which was a flair for vituperatively explosive dialogue and bitchy humor. Instead, his characters have spoken for years now with intolerably stilted pomposity, as if they had wandered out of an unpublished work by some minor Victorian novelist...