Word: mnemonist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harry Lorayne, a mentalist and magician, and Jerry Lucas, the 6-ft. 8-in. basketball player and mnemonist who just retired from the New York Knicks, have devised a pernicious never-fail system for remembering everything-from the names, faces and phone numbers of everyone in a TV audience of 400 people to, in Lucas' case, the essential contents of an issue of TIME...
...pages about his illness. The Man with a Shattered World is a selection of Zasetsky's writings, arranged and commented on by A.R. Luria, professor of psychology at the University of Moscow. The book is equally as remarkable a document as Luria's The Mind of a Mnemonist (1968), which was about a man, otherwise rather ordinary, who suffered from a mind that could not forget anything...
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