Word: mentalism
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...power to turn off his BlackBerry, iPod, cell phone and any other electronic leash he wears. These so-called communication devices in many cases alienate users from the people around them. Electronic communication is not conversation. It lacks the characteristics of human interaction: the physical, mental and emotional sharing of thoughts. Tracey Gilpin Marlborough, Massachusetts, U.S. Harvard in a New Light As a medical student very much intent on going to Harvard Medical School, I read with interest Nicholas Lemann's Essay on how élite American universities serve faculty better than students [March 6]. In Nigeria, where I study...
...There’s the poor, there’s poverty, there’s drugs, there’s crime, an ailing public school, six to seven feet of water,” Ahlers said, ticking off from his mental list...
...mail, Coatsworth praised Lemann’s contribution to Brazilian studies at Harvard, explaining that the alum’s previous multi-million dollar donations have helped lay the foundation for the new office by putting Brazil “on Harvard’s mental...
...power to turn off his BlackBerry, iPod, cell phone and any other electronic leash he wears. These so-called communication devices in many cases alienate users from the people around them. Electronic communication is not conversation. It lacks the characteristics of human interaction: the physical, mental and emotional sharing of thoughts...
...disengage, to stop the conversation. Some scientists speculate that crying may have developed as a kind of psychic escape hatch - the sheer physicality of it distracting the distraught when mental anguish becomes too much to endure...