Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nightmare, concern about the relationship of TV violence to teen-age violence has sparked a plethora of studies. In 1972, the Surgeon General issued a $1.8 million five-volume report concluding that yes, indeed, TV carnage can cause aggressive behavior in some children. Since then, the National Institute of Mental Health, all three networks and various foundations have sponsored their own studies. The Rand Corp., given a $150,000 grant to organize the available research, compiled a bibliography of 2,300 assorted papers and reports...
Rippon works a three-day shift of twelve-hour days. She does not write her own copy, though she suggests changes to improve style and delivery. "The hardest part of the job is the mental discipline," she says. "You mustn't look as if you're concentrating, but the biggest pitfall is to lose concentration...
...second, she doesn't have the physical strength to finish a race, the rigors of which sometimes cause drivers to lose 10 lbs. "That's a bunch of malarkey," says Teammate Dick Simon. "Anybody who's been around here long knows it's the mental strength that counts." Janet Guthrie has displayed plenty of that...
...wine began to flow more freely, so did Rosenthal's praise and passion for The Times. At one point he called the city room a mental circus...
...example: Dr. Jenny Isaksson (Liv Ullmann), the psychiatrist whose mental disintegration and attempted suicide are analyzed in the film, dreams (after the attempt) that she is in a small room surrounded by a crowd of anguished patients. There are so many of them that she can give only the most perfunctory attention to each. Ullmann approaches one woman and peels off her facial skin, which is a mask hiding a face covered with festering sores. Ullmann turns away. She opens a closet door to discover her near-senile grandfather. "I'm afraid of dying," he whispers. She tells...