Word: normalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...must wait for the restoration of normal conditions," said Captain Benn squaring his jaw. He also asked for an appropriation of $650,000 for the India office...
Artists. The painting of pictures is the activity of the normal mind which stands closest to insanity. Next come in close order sculpture, poetry, music. Psychiatrists are just beginning to interpret what they have long observed?the close connection between the psychopath and the artist on one hand, the psychopath and the criminal on the other.?Professor Wilhelm Weygandt of the University of Hamburg. His patients produce modernistic paintings?lop-sided faces, elongated beasts, geometrical patterns?comparable to those of the modern masters. But not all such artists, said he, are mentally unbalanced. Some draw
Contagion. "Mental disorders are contagious. Those who live in congested districts, who lead busy lives in great commercial centres are in grave danger. If 500 normal persons were to be exposed in crowded quarters to five victims of mental diseases, the effects of those five abnormal persons would be felt by every one of the normal 500."?Professor Henri Laugier of the Sorbonne...
...from Thebes, light ladies from Corinth. Taken aback were they when Lysistrata proposed to end the war by pledging each woman to deny herself to husband or lover until peace should be declared. Because the men had been away for six months, and because the ladies of Greece had normal womanly appetites, Miss Bainter had to use a great deal of oratorical persuasion. Finally the women agreed-with reservations. Kalonika-played by winsome Miriam Hopkins in a most demurely diaphanous costume- thought she could resist for two nights, Myrrhina (Hortense Alden) for one. It was easy for the women...
...solar system. It is a simple matter to note the motion of the moon and sun because they are large, travel rapidly relative to man. But the stars are so deliberate that in a planetarium the universe is speeded up as much as 4,000,000 times its normal rate to make star changes apparent. Last week Professor Philip Fox, who resigned from the staff of Northwestern Observatory to take charge of the new planetarium, stood on his platform in the darkened room manipulating levers and buttons, making his stars perform like trained seals. With a flashlight beam, he singled...