Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women he has been accused of raping. In addition to the police version of Hines' story, which included his escape in a car, two of the three victims identified him at a preliminary hearing. The trouble is that Hines, who had never been in trouble before, has a mental age of six years and an IQ in the 30s. Says his father, Richard Hines: "They had Tommy driving a car. That boy can't even ride a bicycle...
...Reconstruction of William James's Lowell Lectures of 1897 on Exceptional Mental States, Lecture II: Automatism, Eugene Taylor, resident graduate at the Divinity School, Swedenborg Chapel, Quincy and Kirkland...
...views about the world expressed frequent feelings of pity for "poor Hans" who nevertheless adhered to a brighter view of things--a view which his canvases reflect. Hoffman, perhaps not in-coincidentally, was one of the few major abstract expressionists who did not commit suicide or experience periods of mental instability...
What is so troubled about a game, tennis [Sept. 11], that commands such a fine audience, attracts so much youth? If technique, physical and mental fitness and talent are means toward large financial rewards, it is only a credit to the game that lures thousands away from harmful pastimes and overall boredom. I only wish there were more Flushing Meadows, because in today's world I cannot think of a nobler financial investment...
...brought one day and not bothered to take away when she left. It had proliferated; many little offshoots were now hanging down until they dangled over the radiator." Perceptions noted, then brushed aside, only to return again, create the underlying rhythm of their days, until Marcia's mental backslide brings a sharper focus. Pym charts the courses of these blameless lives, informing them with a wise, rueful compassion that is all too rare in contemporary fiction...