Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paranoid reaction with delusions and hallucinations. (The fact that different reactions can be provoked by the same substance in itself raises an intriguing psychiatric question: What causes one subject to become catatonic, another to become paranoid?) Within two hours the effect wore off, and the men have been normal since. Dr. Heath emphasized that his report on only two human cases was preliminary. But it was significant, and his substance will be tested as soon as possible by other researchers...
When Norma Jeane was twelve days old, she was put to board (for $25 a month) with a family of religious zealots who lived in a sort of "semirural semi-slum" on the outskirts of Los Angeles. She was a normal baby, bright and happy, but when she was about two years old she suffered a severe shock, which she insists she can remember. A demented neighbor made a deliberate attempt to smother her with a pillow, and almost succeeded before she was dragged away...
...them a battery of IQ, aptitude, physical and psychological tests. But Gesell relied mostly on interviews, not only with the children but with their parents, probed into everything-from the way a child might wriggle to his attitude towards God. The result: a readable and useful chronicle of the normal growing pains of what is too often considered America's problem child...
...senior biographer of the "normal" child, the white-haired, 75-year-old research consultant of the Gesell Institute of Child Development in New Haven, Conn, has now become so thoroughly entrenched as the parents' guide and counselor that some may well wonder how they ever managed to raise their children without...
Love planned to race his shell at 33, a beat higher than normal, over the short sprint course which measures just under a mile and a quarter. He planned no changes in his seatings in the varsity, stroked in both previous wins by Fritz Schwarz. The junior varsity and freshman eights will also compete in the 38 crew regatta...