Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE'S A CLASSIC 'Life in these United States' anecdote about the owner of a neighborhood grocery store who was a whiz at toting up customers' purchases. Around income tax time he was unaccountably stymied by the 1040 form until he discovered the reason for his mental block. Picking up a stack of grocery bags, he completed the necessary calculations easily in his traditional way--on rough brown paper with a pencil stub. The same psychological process may be manifest in author-lawyer Louis Auchincloss, who finds he can only write novels in longhand or familiar yellow legal pads...
...First as a self-satisfied military officer, then as cowardly tyrant, and finally as a simpering, giggling despot who knows he has crippled the souls of his people, Wells is a perfect villain. David Reiffel is equally good in his role as the not-quite-sane mayor, who switches mental illnesses to suit the moment. Charles Weinstein, as the mayor's conniving son who gives up his fiancee to the dragon in return for a position as private secretary, may overdo his sliminess somewhat; but fairy tales deal in black-and-white characters, and outrageously villanous villains are funnier than...
...southern California native attributed his startling improvement to the balmy weather and his mental preparation. "The weather was really nice and warm so I could bend the pole," he said yesterday...
...Laing and Cole are still unsure of what mental illness is, the answer is on the cover [April 12], which clearly depicts insanity in all its glory...
...great sage named Bruno Bettelheim. Rich in experience, wise beyond his 72 years, Dr. Bettelheim had survived the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald to become the most celebrated child psychologist of his time. He had written of autism in infants and prejudice in adults, of social change and mental unbalance, and each book had become a classic. Now he turned his searching intelligence upon a rich and neglected topic: the fairy tale...