Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ironically, one of Hemlock Stones's peculiar assertions is the strongest warning against this album. The British crime-stopper says that when a rat stops chewing, his teeth will grow into his brain. Those who drop weightier matters to listen to this flim risk a similar mental fate...
...major focus of Hanoi's alleged campaign to "force the American congress to limit economic aid" is the widely held charge that Thieu is holding 200,000 civilian political prisoners and is engaging in systematic mental and physical torture. The thrust of the strategy is to create the impression that "if you're against evil, torture and repression, as most Americans are, then we don't want to give aid to a regime like this," Martin said. He claims that the Hanoi campaign has engaged already the enthusiasm of American peace groups, some journalists, and some aides on Captial Hill...
...games after you've made your forecast, nobody remembers or cares what you said. In any case, never does a pre-season pass in which the average baseball buff doesn't find a preview which thoroughly angers him (or her) and prompts speculation as to the prognosticator's mental capacities. So sharpen your claws...
...mind--his chief political asset--works quickly to generate a congenial atmosphere in any meeting. One can almost hear the clicking as his mind makes up a new dossier on an acquaintance or hunts for an old one amid stacks of past encounters. Friends of DiCara claim that his mental vault holds the names, addresses and occupations of at least 7000 to 8000 people in the Boston area. "People tell me I know a lot of people," DiCara says. "I suppose it's one of those traits of personality that I know so many people. I'm a very gregarious...
Parochial Coziness. The marriage broke up in 1932 when Eliot moved out. Nevertheless, he felt almost as guilty as a murderer for leaving her and regarded himself as married to her for life. The ailing Vivienne, who never resigned herself to the separation, died 15 years later in a mental hospital. In 1957, at the age of 69, Eliot married Valerie Fletcher, his secretary. She was cheerful and loving, he was old and affectionate. There is no mystery about this happy second marriage...