Word: psychics
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have been written by a Liszt or a Beethoven in a nodding moment, though they also suggest the possibility of highly skilled parody. But Rosemary does not seem to be composing the music herself. She has lived most of her life as a harried Balham housewife. Though she had psychic experiences as a child, she had little musical training and appears to have limited musical ability. Repeated tests suggest that she cannot even take down the simplest melody by dictation. Then who is smuggling all those notes into Rosemary's piano...
...among the living, man knows that he is going to die. In a time that questions the comforting belief in a better world to come and that also challenges the point of this one. the temptation is strong to deny both life and death. Many men do-at exorbitant psychic cost. "No one who has worked with patients for a long period of time," May writes, "can fail to learn that the psychological and spiritual agony of depersonalization is harder to bear than physical pain...
...born to race/ In my vessels only runs blood to race") and the sounds of their neighs, are selling briskly. Excitement, one of a score of recent books on horse racing, has sold 200,000 copies. Analyzing the craze, Tokyo Psychologist Kazuo Shimada suggests that it satisfies a psychic need in the world's most crowded country. "Merely living here," he says, "breeds friction, tension and frustration. Betting on the horses is a means of alleviating that pressure." As for the crush of the crowds, he adds: "Where interests are one and the same, we clannish Japanese delight...
...left Harvard by request, without a degree, and have long since forgotten the poem. However, the anticlimatic approach of the Fiftieth Reunion weirdly disturbs the deep psychic ooze and bottom silt, and disinters many, many memories (not all of them fond...
...yourself theatre can't really change the world: it can move things a little bit, it can give support to certain things, it can enrich some people's experience. It can't make a revolution, I don't think it has ever done that. I mean a psychic revolution as well as an actual one in the streets. I think it can cause a psychic revolution in an individual, I don't think it can in a large group of people. I think it can affect individuals, I don't think it can affect masses. If you agree with that...