Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Life on the train, according to the released hostages, was indeed a deadly combination of high stress and boredom. Because all the crossword puzzles had been completed, even the men inside the train began to take up embroidery to pass the time. One man plunged into a deep mental depression, and at one point another simply fainted, apparently from tension. The hijackers maintained strict hygiene inside the train. Every morning blankets were hung out of the windows and beaten to remove the dust. In the afternoon, hostages were assigned to remove excrement from under the train's toilet pipe...
...Naipaul's fiction, the landscape, mental as well as actual, has grown ever more terrifying. By contrast, he approaches India with a calm, almost religious detachment. The narrative is often mordant as it describes the dissonance of Indian life: the mutilated beggar children and the fashionable holy men, complete with pressagents; the landless peasants fleeing the villages for the city pavements, the infuriating smugness of the privileged...
Died. Ben Grauer, 68, NBC's eloquent radio announcer, TV reporter and moderator; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. During his 43 years on the air, Grauer covered countless disasters and triumphs. He preferred radio to TV because "you decided the mental picture the audience was going to get, and you could give your own emphasis and play downs...
...Paul Walters, chief of the Mental Health Service at UHS, said that students have been reporting an abundance of "amphetamine-type drugs" on the street, such as mescaline and PCPs. Though these drugs have been circulating in the student population, Walters reports no health or drug problems...
Winthrop goes on to lose the game by one, but all is not lost. At the Straus Cup dinner, Dawes receives the Brian Bolwell Award for lack of alertness and general mental lethargy, while Crimmins and Gostylo share the Benedict Arnold Award...