Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victim's ordeal also included stays at two apartments, neither yet located. In the Savigny-sur-Orge basement, to prevent him from gaining knowledge of his surroundings, the kidnapers forced Empain to remain inside an unlit camping tent. He spent his lonely hours making the few mental notes that he could-two dogs barking, a child crying upstairs, some cracks in a plaster wall he could see. Heavy chains were padlocked around his neck, and the temperature was kept frigid. At mealtime one of the gang would alert the prisoner of his approach by coughing; Empain would then have...
...spite of some of the "mental mistakes" and "lost concentration" on the mound that Brown admitted to, only one of the UMass runs was earned and both could have been prevented...
...that doesn't particularly grab you, have fun this weekend but make a mental note to take in a few lectures scheduled for next week that look promising...
Thomas Szasz will speak April 11 at Ford Hall in Boston on "The Myth of Mental Illness." If you're feeling like you're the only sane person in an absurd world, this could be therapeutic...
...right to be there. Kant insisted that all lies were immoral-even those told to a murderer to protect an innocent life. Erasmus disagreed, but Cardinal Newman sympathized with Kant. His solution: instead of lying to the murderer, knock him down and call the cops. Casuists invented the "mental reservation." Example: "Mr. Smith is not in today"-a lie that is magically transformed into a truth by adding the unspoken thought "to you." The Talmud allows lies for "bed" (inquiries into one's sex life) and "hospitality" (if a host was generous, one could lie about it so that...