Word: mindâ
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Sometimes we lolled on the sand in camp [at Lake Tahoe] and smoked pipes, and read some old well-worn novels. At night, by the campfire, we played euchre and seven-up to strengthen the mind???and played them with cards so greasy and defaced that only a whole summer's acquaintance with them could enable the student to tell the ace of clubs from the jack of diamonds...
...name, let alone want to be seen with him; yet he harbors an uncomfortable disdain for the shallowness he finds among so many "stars." He thinks of himself as an actor-writer-comic; yet he works best as a ringmaster of conversation heightened by the prodding of an acute mind???free associating, Perelmanesque, almost surrealistic. He does battle five times a week with Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show, which claims an audience more than twice the size of Cavett's (7.7 million viewers v. 3.4 million...
...science of mind???a kind of poor man's psychoanalysis...
...daughters watching the horses run, laying bets, having fun. It was John Jacob Raskob on the telephone, calling from Manhattan. He had been hunting all over for Mr. Shouse and wanted him to come right up to town? very important ? national duty ? great scheme in mind???must come. Jouett Shouse went up but it took Mr. Raskob two days to argue him into shouldering the task of electing a Democratic Congress in 1930. Jouett Shouse was making about $50,000 per year out of his law business. He was not breaking even at the race-tracks?few people...
...forces somewhat different from those of the hearing man." But the deaf person who for years could hear, endures a "psychological amputation." Emotional maladjustment develops, in two typical clinical pictures. The victim becomes depressed or he becomes suspicious. Both types result from primitive rage and hatred in the unconscious mind???in one case by rage and hatred of himself because he has become abnormal, the other by rage with and hatred of others because he thinks they wish to take advantage of his affliction. Rarely are the blind so affected. Ears are more useful than eyes. A person deafened after...