Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...search for dramatic stories, German Freelance Reporter Günter Wallraff has masqueraded as a derelict, a mental patient, a napalm-factory worker and a Portuguese terrorist. He once chained himself to an Athens lamppost so that he could investigate justice under the Greek junta. His masquerade worked all too well: he was tortured and then imprisoned for three months. Wallraff s latest and most outrageous pose: a reporter...
...notice he received persuaded him to seek new roles for his "abnormal personality." He spent three years working at various blue-collar jobs for a 1966 expose of the squalor and drudgery that can afflict industrial workers in affluent West Germany. He posed as a drunkard and later a mental patient to uncover prejudice and hypocrisy among government social agencies...
...used to aid manic depressives. He says that in many manic depressives the red cell membrane has no system for regulating the transport of lithium. Tosteson hopes to examine the chromosomes of manic depressive individuals to see if there is a correlation between the presence of genes for the mental disorder and the presence of genes for the red cell membrane disorder...
...varies not only from person to person but within the individual as well. Eyesight may fail while hearing remains acute. Says Psychiatrist Robert N. Butler, director of the National Institute on Aging: "One may be at different 'ages' at one and the same time in terms of mental capacity, physical health, endurance, creativity and emotions...
Quality As the Army has been insisting all along, it is signing up higher-caliber men than those who were dragged into uniform by the draft. Since conscription ended, the portion of enlistees in the top three of four mental categories used for classifying eligible people has increased from 76% to 93%. The Army's strategy is to continue raising standards so that the lowest mental category can eventually be eliminated. Since the end of the draft, the Army has already reduced the proportion of the bottom-category enlistees to 11% from...