Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Murphy, cross-examining the psychologist, asked: "Doctor, would you describe your personality as normal...
Murphy replied that "there is no such thing as normal." The prosecution continued: "Would it be of any significance to you if you noticed that a subject's mouth twitched, that his eyes opened and closed, that he had excessive hand gestures, that he played with his watch chain and his glasses and his nose, that he turned his head constantly and breathed heavily through his nose...
Deconversion of the Houses begins next month when 190 House residents graduate and depart. With the beginning of this trend, Housemasters are looking forward to the Houses returning to a more normal size. But with many qualified upperclassmen still waiting to be admitted to the Houses, the deconversion move appears premature...
...Fadeout. Around 11 a.m. Aly's pressagent stepped out of the clinic. "Gentlemen," he said portentously, "will you please stand by for an important announcement by Prince Aly Khan himself?" Rumpled and unshaven, Aly told the world: it was a ½lb. girl, a normal delivery, though "Rita had a very tough time." The baby would be called Yasmin, the Arabic word for jasmine. "I told you," he reminded a newsman, "that premature babies run in my family...
When Duncan explores a field filled with eerie Druids' stones, Gerald accosts him in clouded anger, then mutters, "I suppose you had to come here sooner or later." The boy begins to sense that there are two Uncle Geralds: one normal and jovial, the other dark and menacing...