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Probably the most dubious statement of the week, to laymen's ears, came from the University of Illinois' famed Dr. Andrew C. Ivy. Most of the pain people feel during dental drilling, said he, is no doubt only psychic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Take It Easy | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...good Professor fails to comprehend that religion collectively has been one of the greatest psychic factors in the molding of human history, not the least evil of which has been Christianity. Religion is a man-made stumbling block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 7, 1947 | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

When Detroit's policeman-censor threatened to close Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten unless the actors stopped saying certain words, the words were just quietly dropped. Detroiters would no longer suffer the psychic trauma of: 1) "whore," 2) "bastard," 3) "God damn," 4) "son of a bitch," and 5) "blonde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 24, 1947 | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...them. He finds bleak comfort in the thought that as yet no universal state has been imposed despite Napoleon's attempt, and two attempts by the Germans. But from the vast design and complex achievement of A Study of History one hopeful meaning stands out: not materialist but psychic factors are the decisive forces of history. The action takes place within the amphitheater of the world and the flux of time; the real drama unfolds within the mind of man. It is determined by his responses to the challenges of life; and since his capacity for response is infinitely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Challenge | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

JOSEPH L. FETTERMAN, M.D. The Neuropsychiatric Institute Cleveland ¶ Sister was psychotic; TIME'S Cinema editor must have been a little neuro-psychic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 11, 1946 | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

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