Word: psyching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
They were also masters of the art of combat, perhaps unequaled before or since. In the field, they enjoyed it when the odds were at least 20 to 1-against them. Espionage, reconnaissance, subversion, psychological warfare-they knew and practiced all these supposedly modern martial stratagems. To "psych" his adversaries before the siege of Palermo, the Norman commander, Roger de Hauteville, released a flock of captured carrier pigeons-after tying to their legs scraps of cloth soaked in Saracen blood...
...there is "Larry The Machine," now a graduate student at M.I.T. Larry, who plays in the Dunster and the Leverett games, spent last year in the casinos of San Francisco. He considered going professional but instead decided to come East to graduate school. "It took me three months to psych out the casino players." The Machine explained. "They are all quite good; they follow the rules. But they don't think about a hand the way the guys at Harvard do. The poker here is definitely of a higher quality...
...psych has long been essential in the volatile world of music. In this month's High Fidelity Magazine, for example, Pianist Claudio Arrau tells how analysis helped his playing by "clearing my personal psychic jungle," and contends that no musician is ready to stand on his own until he has first stretched out on the analyst's couch and found "selfhood in harmony with the cosmos...
...their subject, and based on second-or third-hand information. Together, they framed a savage posthumous assault that depicts Thomas Woodrow Wilson as a Messianic but effeminate zealot hovering on the brink of insanity. It is all the more remarkable because it is not the work of some pop-psych practitioner but bears the name of the founder of psychoanalysis himself. On this showing, if not on others, Freud puts psychoanalysis in the category of myth and poetry rather than that of scientific examination...
Though, as tomorrow's historians, they may ultimately credit their elders with a certain degree of prowess in staving off thermonuclear war, many pop-psych their growing pains in terms of the atom. "We're the Bomb Babies," says Los Angeles City College Student Ronald Allison, 23. "We grew up with fallout in our milk." The hyperbole may sound sentimental, but because of the Bomb, some Now People reach their teens feeling that they are trying to compress a lifetime into...