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...machete and in turn been murdered, Maria took flight from this Mexican Egypt to give birth to Manuel. From infancy he is one apart. He has a "disease" not quite epilepsy, but something that sometimes makes him unaware of things around him. At nine he whittles a wooden nail to wound his palm. He smears himself with pig's blood. In episodes intended to echo Jesus' sojourn in the temple, he learns the ancient Nahuatl language and mythology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mystery Mosaic | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). The So-Called Human Race, a walleyed, satirical look at psychiatry by George Panetta, whose credentials include an off-Broadway comedy called Comic Strip that nail-tough Critic Walter Kerr dismissed as "perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...there is much more to the Summer School than the nightly collection of hungry males ogling the windows of female - filled Wiggles-worth, the sight of a bare nail-polished foot extended upon a chair during a final exam, and the overly friendly girls who ask a young man whether he "would tutor me in this course because I just have no idea of what's going on." This summer saw an unusually large number of renowned professors among the School's faculty: Allen Tate, C. Northcote Parkinson, Angus Taylor, Harold Schmidt, and many others. On a poll distributed...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: A Critique of the Summer School: Despite Some Faults, it Spreads its Bit of Veritas | 9/24/1958 | See Source »

...bloody spades!" shrieked a 15-year-old Teddy boy. Others took up the cry-but it changed to "Kill the bloody coppers!" as truncheon-flailing police surged into the mob. Dozens were arrested and police stations stacked up piles of bicycle chains and tire irons, flick knives and nail-studded belts taken from the rioters. "It's become a teen-age sport," said the officer in charge of West London night operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Hotting Hill Nights | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

Such revelations about an "average" hospital population still do not prove that disease is a direct consequence of depression, notes Dr. Schmale. Disease and depression may be quite separate attempts by the bodymind to adapt to loss and despair. To really nail down a link between object loss and biological vulnerability, it is also necessary to see how some people survive personality blows without getting sick. But theoretically, health depends largely on keeping the ego intact. If it does, then a blueprint analysis of a patient's personality may become as useful in preventive medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mind v. Body | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

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