Word: mentalism
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...astonishingly sensitive to criticism, and offering to die can be seen as an effective shield from the accusations of society or the pangs of conscience. Ross's public defenders have told him that he could have an additional 5 to 10 years of appeals left and that his mental instability might win him commutation to life without parole. But for Ross, who wept at how few responses his more than 200 goodbye letters to pen pals and supporters elicited, the prospect of yet another penalty hearing, with its gory photos, censorious prosecutors and vengeful family members, seems a punishment worse...
...Himmler, Goebbels, and Göring, who greets Wagener in a red dressing gown and scarlet slippers with turned-up toes. To anyone familiar with office politics, this is a calculated rudeness. Wagener does not seem to get the message. Ever the intellectual snob, he sees Göring as a mental patient rather than a shrewd realist who knows the difference between theatricality and self-delusion...
Wagener seems unable to make this distinction. He mistakes Hitler's flights of quasi-history and pseudo science for higher truth. It is a form of mental alchemy that confuses metaphor with fact. Somewhere in the Führer's murky idea of Europe's gene pool, the Volk await a new golden age. But first he must burn away the dross of Bolshevism and Jewry. The verbiage grows wild and the mind bloats. Wagener's unintended legacy is a lesson on how a haunted medieval mind could effectively debase reason in the name of reason. --By R.Z. Sheppard
From there, his search takes him to more and more unlikely settings. Although the progression from his home to his school is an obvious one, the mentor he selects there—Pappass (Robin Williams), the mentally-challenged school janitor—certainly is not. Nonetheless, Pappass gives Tommy everything his mom does not; he is happy to listen to Tommy’s rambling thoughts and his mental deficiency allows him to relate to a 13-year...
Such portions of the Act include sections 203, 215, 218, 219, 358, 507 and 508, which collectively grant federal officials broad access to mental health, library, business, financial, and educational records in direct violation of many states’ privacy laws, as well as the Constitutional right to privacy. Many of these same clauses, however (203(b)(d), 215, 218), are set to expire on Dec. 31, 2005 Allowing these to lapse would successfully invalidate some of the most disturbing provisions of the Act, including Section 215, which grants federal access to library records and is cited most frequently...