Word: mantra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...readers of America, the same culture that nurtured the catharsis-via-Oprah method of personal problem resolution and the so-called "cult of victim-hood," to stop complaining about how tough their lot is, get their respective chins up and just deal. "Life is difficult," as the book's mantra claims, but from Week 663, the view is probably a lot rosier...
...crazy." She has weird rituals. Ask her about her injury-free career, and she scurries for a balance beam to knock wood. Most refreshing, unlike so many world-class gymnasts, who sound as if they've spent too many hours in airless gyms inhaling chalk powder and practicing the mantra "I just want to do the best I can," Moceanu is forthright. She admits she wants to win--but is prepared to lose. "That's what makes you stronger," she says. "The hard times...
...moving to Dole but shifting to undecided. In a series of private meetings and at various dinners, Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour declared that Dole had to focus on the presidential campaign "to the exclusion of all else," a phrase he repeated so often it became a mantra...
...little too easy to dismiss the gaunt and frail-looking 75-year-old suffering from prostate cancer as just another artifact from the psychedelic era. There was a time, after all, when "tune in, turn on, drop out" was the mantra of a generation. People have forgotten how influential his International Foundation for Internal Freedom (pronounced If, If) was and how dangerous the government considered him. LEARY IS GOD was almost as popular a button on campus as peyote was in the mid-'60s. It wasn't just the kids who fell under the spell of Leary...
...trying to write his own politics into Harvard's history so much as find the now ubiquitous language of diversity within Harvard's commitment to excellence. Despite the political debate in Washington, the president can be forgiven for assuming there was little controversial in rehashing this campus mantra in his report on "Diversity and Learning...