Word: psychically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Washington sprouted with talk that L.B.J. and Kearns were lovers; but Kearns told the Wellfleet group Johnson's needs were psychic-and historical. The President poured out stories of his inner life, urging Kearns to write them, apparently in the belief she was his last best hope of reaching "you Harvards" who would write the histories...
...humanism, civil liberties and socialism is a desperate attempt for recognition from a retired fellow-traveler standing a half-skip, jump or foot away from the grave. Lamont wrote obsessively on the subject of death as a young man--philosophic studies, poetry anthologies, scientific debates on reincarnation and psychic phenomena. His thanatology concluded in a "higher hedonism" doctrine, which stressed living vitally, though ethically, since man is always a heartbeat away from nonentity...
Rhine, who pioneered E.S.P. (extrasensory perception) research in the 1930s, has long recognized the need for sophisticated techniques, including the use of computers, to collect reliable data on psychic phenomena. Levy, a medical student who began working at the institute during his summer vacation in 1969, showed an unusual talent for automating experiments and recording data. After Levy graduated from the Medical College of Georgia last year, Rhine hired him as a full-time researcher; soon he was promoted to director...
...early May, Levy was reporting 54% pleasure stimulus scores, indicating that the rats had psychic powers. Then one of Levy's assistants became suspicious when he noticed that the director seemed to be loitering needlessly around the equipment. With two colleagues, the assistant decided to check. From a hiding place one watched while the others helped Levy run a test. They saw him tamper with the recorder, causing his tape to score high. Another set of instruments-installed without Levy's knowledge-confirmed their suspicions by recording the expected 50% score...
...falsified data; after failing to reproduce earlier positive tests, he had felt a need to force the data to reflect the results he expected. Following the disclosure, Rhine set other staff members to work, checking the more important of Levy's earlier findings, and cautioned other psychic researchers not to rely on these data until they can be verified...