Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have a feeling that there is a demon within themselves," says Los Angeles Clinical Psychiatrist Martin Grotjahn, "and they try to kill the demon by model behavior." Sensing aggressive impulses that frighten them, adds a Manhattan analyst, "they live the opposite of what they feel. They become gentle, very mild, extremely nice people, and often show a compulsive need to be perfectionistic," which is one reason why people can always be found to describe a murderer as a "nice" or a "gentle" or a "good" boy, as some described Charles Whitman last week...
...Pipedream. Even the Russians did not claim that the U.S. had bombed innocent civilians. Indeed, though the Administration had dire misgivings in advance about world reaction, most foreign comment was either fairly mild or else cut-and-dried violent, as if the tirades had been spiked for weeks in expectation of the raids...
...Hallucinogenic" or "psychedelic" (literally, "mind-manifesting") drugs come in three groups. The mild ones are morning-glory seeds, nutmeg and marijuana. The moderately potent ones are the mescaline of Weir Mitchell's experiment, psilocybin (derived from the Mexican Indians' "sacred mushroom"), bufotenine (a constituent of Amanita muscaria), and dimethyltryptamine (found in cohoba). By itself on the third level is LSD. It has 100 times the potency of psilocybin and 7,000 times that of mescaline, which is itself considerably more powerful than marijuana...
...Kushner used a relatively simple, low-power electric-shock device, activated by sound-the sound of June's sneezes. Electrodes were attached to her forearm for 30 minutes, and every time she sneezed she got a mild shock. After a ten-minute break, the electrodes were put on the other arm. In little more than four hours, June's sneezes, which had been reverberating every 40 seconds, stopped. Since then, she has had only a few ordinary sneezes, none of the dry, racking kind that had been draining her strength for so long. "We hope the absence...
...Fast as He Feels. Just how fast Marichal's fastball travels when he does throw it is a subject of mild controversy. "Slower than Koufax's" is a common comment, but the truth is: as fast as he feels like throwing it. One National League hitter claims to have counted ten different speeds, and few batters have ever seen Marichal really cut loose. Cincinnati's John Edwards is one of the privileged few. After Marichal struck him out with the bases loaded last week, Giants Coach Charlie Fox noted that "Edwards obviously knew those fastballs were coming...