Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though DeSisto may sound like a work camp dreamed up by Dickens and Freud, it has successfully straightened out disturbed youngsters who had failed to respond to treatment elsewhere. One boy, who is due to graduate next spring, had previously been expelled from a state mental hospital as uncontrollable. A recent graduate, now working on the school staff while he waits to enter college, had a long theft-and-burglary record. Until the school turned him around, he had an unusual career goal: to be a bank robber...
Emmanuel Ekama and junior Chris Wilmot played exceptional games for Harvard as they continually broke up potential Yale scoring threats and covered up on mental lapses by other Crimson players...
...anachronism. Partially as a result of the movie, the popular image of electric shock, which had been steadily fading in the U.S., grew even dimmer. Now shock treatment is regaining popularity, defended by many psychiatrists as a safe, humane and often dramatically effective method for treating some forms of mental illness, particularly depression...
...began to break free of the golden chains of the magazines, he took to posing, says Biographer Bell, as an unenlightened middle brow. After meeting John Dos Passes in the 1950s, he reported that he was "a nice guy but hard for me to talk to, due to my mental limitations...
...Within our defensive secondary scheme adjuster is the position where the player must make quick decisions and then react accordingly. To do this as well as John has, an athlete must have two important gifts, athletic ability and the mental capacity to use those abilities," Fanning says. "It is important to realize that while John is a very talented young man, it is his willingness to put his nose to the grindstone and work that has made him the outstanding player...