Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course the jobs themselves are difficult. The worker on the pipeline makes his big money during the hours he puts in on overtime, which usually doubles the regular eight-hour working day. Faulkner said he found the mental tedium of a typical eighteen-hour day on the job agonizing. "You sell your soul to ALYESKA when you go to the 'line'," he said. But Faulkner acknowledged afterwards, "I'll probably end up going back there next summer, because where else can I earn that much money?" Looking at one of his paychecks, it is not difficult...
Sign-language experts, however, reckon that it could take Lang as long as five years to master the abstract concepts necessary to stand trial. To that end, the judge ordered the Department of Mental Health to come up with a special educational program for Lang. Beaming over the judge's decision, Donald Paull, one of Lang's lawyers, flashed a victory sign to his client. But the small, muscular deaf-mute, who has spent almost a decade in one lockup or another, only shook his head, shrugged and frowned. Lang remained in confinement, but this week the court...
Daly spent Christmas vacation experiencing mental anguish unparalleled since the days of the early Christian martyrs, as the Quakers lost to both Manhattan and Georgetown in the Holiday Festival in New York City. Manhattan, which has been manhandled by both Princeton and Columbia, won in the opening round 68-61. Georgetown took the consolation game...
Fragments of evidence from his early home times confirm Carter's memories of love and challenge, of parents who were "there" in fact and in caring insistence that there were works to be done. By age twelve, Son Jimmy had learned to list among "healthy mental habits" this first one: "the habit of expecting to accomplish what you attempt." By 52, he and his folks were finding running for President-with all its frustrations-"the most gratifying, exciting thing we've ever done." Like F.D.R. and H.S.T. and J.F.K., Carter discovered, as child and man, that he could...
...already announced that she's going to help organize a commission on mental health. She would certainly be interested in the comprehensive health care program. I'll let her decide what sort of projects she wants to become involved in. But she and other members of my family will probably travel a good bit, both within this country and in foreign countries. I'll use her as an extension of myself...