Word: mentally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Murder and suicide are different manifestations of the same psychological disease--blind anger, according to reports released yesterday by two University researchers. Dr. Daniel H. Funkenstein, Clinical Associate in Psychiatry, and Dr. Hazel M. Hitson, an anthropologist in the Social Relations Department, studied mental hospital records and human behavior patterns to reach their conclusions...
...most of us, anger is a temporary thing which wanes in a short time," Funkenstein stated, "but if one suffers from mental illness, rage is sustained for very long periods." Murder and suicide represent the extreme forms of these two aberrant conditions, he explained...
...Hitson lived in a Burmese village for a year and a half, and concluded that paternal domination makes murder a far more likely result of mental illness than suicide. The father requires obedience by both wife and children, who become subdued, she stated, and this domination produces outward-directed anger...
...most gratifying win for Norm Shepard's flock, being their first in Eastern League play this year. But the most distinctive feature of the contest was the bewildering assortment of fielding errors and mental boners which kept the spectators chortling for a full three-and-one half hours...
Yovicsin also felt that training meals are a good place for the athletes to meet while the are off the field. "The boys benefit greatly from talking over their mutual problems at the tables. These meals heighten the morale and the mental state of the player," he said...