Word: mental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would [also] like to take issue with you on ... the overemphasis of conflict in the human personality. One could easily assume therefrom that mental health is reachable through the elimination of conflict. This is not so. Conflict is as natural to man as his desire to avoid...
...would have been better to posit the situation in terms of balance. Then you would have reminded your readers of a basic truth-that emotional buoyancy and mental stability come, not so much from the resolution of conflict, but from the ability of the personality to maintain a balance between drives of varying intensity...
...This mental bloc, so to speak, reacted in the teams they brought with them to the Stadium. So, what was generally interpreted as Stadiumitis on the part of Brown, was in reality a combined fear and awe-of Harvard, planted in Brown, by the coaches themselves...
Also in Reno, after 14 months of marriage, Doris ("Richest Blonde in the World") Duke got a quick divorce on grounds of mental cruelty from Porfirio Rubirosa, onetime Dominican Ambassador to Argentina. Puzzled newsmen wondered how she had been able to get the divorce so fast. It was really quite simple, explained Doris: she had never given up legal residence in the state after her first divorce (from Playboy-Diplomat Jimmy Cromwell), because she had never gotten around to selling the house she lived in. Had she made Rubirosa a cash settlement? No, they had agreed on that in advance...
...each of his roles-soldier, cadet, editor, or unhappy lover-there is no escaping the apparent fact that Poe was a genius, with a mind so quick and extraordinary that, even had he not had a fierce temper and a weakness for drink, his mental superiority to the people around him would probably have made him just as miserable...