Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bill would have left some 40 million Americans unprotected; the new program would set up a Government plan to cover the poor, the unemployed and the self-employed. Nixon's plan would incorporate such existing Medicaid benefits as eyeglasses and dental care for children, provide for mental illness, including alcoholism and drug abuse, and cope with the costs of catastrophic illness by ensuring that no family would have to pay out more than $1,500 for major medical care in any given year. It also includes provisions to control hospital and doctors' fees...
These critics object to the vagueness of Curran's definition of "special offenders"--he says they're inmates who "exhibit signs of serious mental disturbance" or "repeated aggressive behavior," who are "incorrigible," "disruptive," and "dangerous." Matthew Dumont, the assistant commissioner, predicts that in practice "special offenders" would mean political activists, and there's nothing in Curran's plan to prove him wrong. The critics also object to what they consider Curran's recommendation of drug therapy and behavior modification programs to control troublesome prisoners. Curran says he didn't recommend these programs at all, but his report summary says...
...Special offenders" were defined in the report as those inmates who "exhibit signs of serious mental disturbance" or "repeated aggressive behavior" that requires their "removal to another kind of more appropriate facility or treatment program to handle their special problems...
...points out that "IQs are simply a measure of what you need to do well in the mainstream culture of white middle-class America." Because many blacks are excluded from this mainstream by racial prejudice and class segregation, they never have a chance to acquire the information and mental attitudes and skills that lead to success on IQ tests. The same exclusion also has its impact on preschool-age children, she says. That accounts for the lower IQ scores of blacks in kindergarten. In sum, Sanday believes that her study demonstrates that over a period of time, school and community...
...during the first stage of writing. In his brilliant piece on "Inspiration," he describes how Ada took form from a single inspired, Iyric section that gave tone and texture to the whole book. Writing the book means approximating in the best words available something that already exists in a mental realm from which Nabokov rescues, recreates, excavates it. A subtle relation between levels of possibility--in thought and in vocabulary--participates in the creation of the words that firmly but transparently exist there on the page...