Word: psychos
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...nothing new, of course, for the Dramatic Club to be producing dramas, and yet it is a distinctly new and refreshing omen that the Dramatic Club has recovered from its psycho-neurotic obsession that has been tormenting us for at least the last two years. For these last two horrible years we have come out of a Dramatic Club performance with a self-conscious feeling of inferiority in matters of comprehension...
...controlling the centers of the brain, and the development of the belief that it may be caused by a condition of left or mixed dominance in the eyes and hands characterizes the trend of research now being conducted by Dr. Walter F. Dearborn and his associates at the Psycho-Educational Clinic of the Graduate School of Education...
...Harvard Psycho-Educational Clinic, the eyes of dyslexia subjects are tested to discover which eye is dominant or controlling. Among the examinations is a test involving a stereoscope through which each eye looks at a series of typed numbers or digits. Ordinarily the subject will make a choice between the left or right eye. Whereas occasional subject sees both sets of digits, he may be classified as lacking in any lateral ocular dominance. A tottery of "sighting" tests is required, since a single test has not been found adequate except when the lateral dominance is pronounced. Dominance in the hands...
...outside world the candidate is a pestilence, and the snooping, prying novitiate is a bane to all civilized people. Even to those on the inside his behavior is inexplicable. In these days of emphasis on psycho-analysis it would not be a fruitless task for the psychological laboratories to delve deep into the inner makeup of the CRIMSON candidate...
...reputation. When he was in Provincetown, he was comparatively unknown. He wrote slight one act plays for a while which still have a few followers. Then came success with a series of popular plays, but he was rarely heralded by critics as the foremost dramatist until he reached the psycho-analytical period. Here he reached the peak with "Strange Interlude." Soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor, doctor, and butcher flocked to this intellectual play. Being intellectual was the fad of that period; you might surreptitiously go to see Clara Bow, but you were "passe" if you couldn't discuss your complexes...