Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hard Type. Though Gilmore was twice confined in an Oregon state mental hospital, there seemed to be little question of his legal sanity and his perverse sincerity. A Utah prison psychiatrist pronounced him "intelligent, very rational and without any indication of mental illness." The Texas-born Gilmore was first sent to a reformatory at 14 after breaking a school window. He has been behind bars during 18 of the 21 years since then for, among other things, auto theft, armed robbery and assault. Paroled last April, Gilmore was settling into a job in Provo and living with his Mormon uncle...
...Carter tried to get his reorganization plan through the state legislature, Watson was the smooth arm twister he assigned to persuade the most resistant rural legislators. Then Carter asked him to head up the largest and most controversial of his departments, human resources, which included sensitive programs in drugs, mental health, Medicaid...
McFarland was one of the first researchers to show how lack of oxygen could impair the sensory perception and mental functioning of pilots and mountaineers...
Much of McFarland's work dealt with the effects of diminished oxygen supply on the central nervous system, especially in the field of vision, and with the process of again. His theory relating the sensory and mental changes of aging to alterations in the oxygenation of body tissues has been widely accepted...
...learned in the arts, sciences or professions; indeed, we should be disappointed if the bachelor's degree signified the acme of their intellectual growth. Welcoming our graduates to the company of educated men and women makes sense to me only if it expresses our belief that their mental skills and powers have met a reasonable standard...