Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beyond the obvious, the defensive kneejerk refusal to listen to Solzhenisyn, there is another reason why a Western audience--whether in Cambridge or Ohio--had such trouble hearing. Solzhenitsyn, after all, is profoundly a man of Eastern culture, and his ideas simply do not mesh with the mental and philosophical constructs of the West...
...grandfather's face is collecting wrinkles. There is more gray at his temples. He has thickened a little at the waist. But there is energy in his eyes and his movements, a mental vigor that seems untouched by the savage season of Watergate. One concludes that Nixon looks his guest in the eye more directly, more confidently and with less of the familiar lid fluttering that sometimes marred his human encounters years ago in the White House...
Undersea exploration and oil searches go on apace. Oceanographers, environ mental experts and futurists freely predict that man will not only soon put vast tracts of seabed under cultivation but may eventually be commuting back and forth to shallow, Atlantis-like undersea apartment clusters. It is tempting to see the baby sub not just as a prototype toy for the rich in Florida and California but as a seagoing Model T Ford, a future flivver of the deep, or like the Curtiss Jenny biplane, some kind of ur-machine that may usher in a new age of travel. In that...
...York seems to be coping -chastened but in reasonably good mental health, even though just now in August the island of Manhattan is many tons lighter because most of its psychiatrists have gone to Martha's Vineyard and the Hamptons on Long Island. There seems a bit less of the manic energy that existed in the 1930s when, for example, Fiorello La Guardia raced to the Bronx Terminal Market at 6:30 in the morning with a pair of buglers to announce that he was banning the public sale of artichokes because the wholesale supplier was controlled by gangsters...
...dose of Freudian pessimism: every child is born with an "insatiable biological drive" to have what it cannot have, the total attention and love of its mother. The failure to satisfy this drive, he believes, produces anger and protective devices that dominate every stage of adult development. Says Gould: "Mental life seems to have an unconscious goal-the elimination of the distortions of childhood consciousness and its demons and protective devices that restrict our life...