Word: stimulus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...joining an organization called the Moral Education League . . . and it also led to my becoming a visitor to [a] hospital for the treatment of venereal disease. I read to the patients and sang to them." Emy's distinguished husband was impatient with all this: "I wanted mental stimulus whereas he wanted fun and relaxation...
...finally found her stimulus in Theosophy. In the cult's early exciting days its devotees expected that a great spirit was about to be reincarnated. Mrs. Annie Besant-Socialist, organizer of the Theosophical Society, and pal of Bernard Shaw -undertook to conjure up the great spirit. He was an Indian named Krishnamurti. When Emy met him, it was a case of love at first sight-and of mistaken identity. She can write today: "I who am not in the least clairvoyant could see the face of the Lord through the face of Krishna...
...role of the college and the concomitant strains which we should anticipate upon students who use institutions of higher learning for social mobility or the defense of an already established social position. Indeed, he does not even consider the fact that all intellectual activity is a reaction to some stimulus, usually some sort of infantile frustration or deprivation. Nor does he consider the possibility that mental health may exist only in a human being who resembles a vegetable...
...greatest handicap to expansion of tutorial for credit, but if the faculty can put aside the absurd notion that most students work only for grades, this timorous attitude can be overcome. There is a grade in tutorial for credit, unlike course reduction, but this is not the stimulus; the spur to work in "99" courses comes from the requirement of laying one's work before a tutor who can examine and criticize it, and suggest further lines of study, new books to read, new people...
...postwar German history." At first it was touch and go as people rushed to buy suddenly unrationed goods. But Erhard shrewdly counted on merchants and farmers to bring out of hiding carefully hoarded goods, figured these would fill the gap until new production could get rolling under the stimulus of freed prices. "Na, Frau Muhr," he would ask his secretary each day, "are there still any textiles left in the shop windows this morning?" As prices soared, outraged citizens hoisted "Erhard to the Gallows" banners, and trade unions demanded a return to rationing and price controls. Replied Erhard: "We must...