Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wonder Dr. Postma's mother wanted "to leave this life." The best thing her "merciful" doctor-daughter had to give her was a fatal shot of morphine to relieve her "unbearable mental suffering," instead of taking her home and giving her a daughter's love and care...
Echoing many other such groups, Washington's advisory committee concluded that marijuana alone is neither hazardous nor detrimental to physical or mental health, and its use should not be a criminal offense. But the commission went a long step further by suggesting Government supervision of production and marketing, ostensibly to keep it from the underworld. Mayor Washington, realistically appraising the mood on Capitol Hill, has no intention of asking Congress for enabling legislation...
...credit for dubbing the prison the "Hanoi Hilton," though he hopes that the name will not give Americans the idea that it was a "luxury palace." For 2½ years of his eight years' captivity he was kept in isolation. He kept his sanity during that period by mentally constructing a house for his family, brick by brick. When a letter arrived from his wife Lorraine saying that she had already bought a house, "I was really in a sweat. My mental project was ruined...
...real problem with some of the crew exercises, as shown in my second example--the ergometer--was the mental anxiety which was bound to linger in anticipation of the next day's workout. The ergometer is a machine which an oarsman rows upon in practice and the act of rowing turns a flywheel. The problem is that an oarsman cannot ease his effort because that will slow the flywheel and in turn, make the next stroke all the more difficult. The exercise causes all kinds of muscles to scream out in pain. There were several times when I stopped...
There was a price to pay to achieve the benefits of crew, however, and for me it was very much a mental one. The anxiety about a tough workout carried over into aspects of life outside of crew. It was hard to leave tension behind at the boathouse. I was particularly bothered by the fact that I was missing out on something, that the committment to crew limited possibilities for growth in other areas...