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...theory that disabilities of the mind impair earning capacity more than damage to muscle and bone. The VA may be right, but it would not be easy to determine the extent of-or the cure for-those psychiatric problems. In a sense, the entire nation has suffered some psychic damage because of Viet...
...middle-aged male in a psychic or physical funk is very much in vogue this season on Broadway. We have seen that theme treated in That Championship Season and Butley, and now in Finishing Touches. Each of these plays fires off salvos of laughter, and yet each also imparts an unsettling mood of deep, free-floating anxiety...
...world is that the Chinese take their revolution seriously. Astonished, Tuchman reports the lengths to which Mao has gone in creating perpetual revolution and the degree to which the people actually live it. Tempered by her concern for an uninformed and misinformed public, she is otherwise enthusiastic about the psychic and material benefits that the Chinese have begun to enjoy since the years of Stilwell...
Sports Huddle fans do not take such predictions lightly. On the eve of the Miami Dolphins' 14-7 Super Bowl victory over the Washington Redskins, the Boston badmouths consulted a psychic, a bookie, two Chinese abacus experts and assorted astrologers, then correctly predicted the winner of the championship game for the fourth season...
...shoddiness of their work as scientists is the result less of incompetence than of a conscious rejection of scientific ways of looking at things. Leary and Alpert fancy themselves prophets of a psychic revolution designed to free Western man from the limitations of consciousness as we know it. They are contemptuous of all organized systems of action--of what they call the "roles" and "games" of society. They prefer mystical ecstasy to the fulfillment available through work, politics, religion, and creative art, yet like true revolutionaries they will play these games to further their own ends. And even more like...