Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...journal. It's a far more entertaining purveyor of little-known facts than the Guinness Book of Records. Its readers' questions and answer section tells you all about building and living in tepees with the notable caution. "The shape of the structure itself may affect your physical and mental condition and your lifestyle in general". Or, extra! Wicked Govt.-Appointed Hopi Tribal Council has Resolved to Turn the Hopi Homeland over to the Peabody Coal Co. for Strip Mining for $5 million and there are endangered butterflies and laetrile-smugglers (laetrile is a banned anti-cancer drug), and the Animal...
...daily schedule, she is feeding the President's Panasonic phonograph with classical LPs. The background music plays all day. Clough types the musical program on a tidy series of yellow three-by-five cards and places them on the President's desk so that he can make mental notes of what he is hearing. Some of the music for this Wednesday: Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Verdi's Otello, Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, selections from Puccini and Mozart...
Side Questions. In Kremens v. Bartley, a class action expected to be decided this spring, lawyers are asking the court to require due-process protections before a child can be committed to a mental institution by his parents. The case was brought on behalf of five minors who were placed by their parents in a Pennsylvania mental institution for truancy, drug use, sexual misbehavior and other reasons. Their attorney insisted that the children should not have been committed simply on the say so of their parents, and demanded various precommitment safeguards, including a hearing. But state officials worry that such...
...noble style intact, Lancelot is Percy's bitterest novel, written not with the black humor of alienation but with the crotchety distemper of a curmudgeon. It does not add to Lancelot Edwarde Lamar's credibility as an existential visionary that he speaks from a private cell in a mental hospital, reflecting on his incineration of his adulterous wife and her lover on his family estate. There is a sense that Percy feels ambivalent towards a character who might be his spokesman and who might also be crazy...
Douglas' fellow Justices, fearing damage to the court's work and unseemly publicity about his impaired mental abilities, had prodded him to retire...