Word: mental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other bright spot, Dixon, also credited his performance to his mental attitude, or rather the mental games he played during the race. "I did lots of lying to myself," Dixon said. "I just kept telling myself the finish line was just over the hill...
There were, however, several bright spots in the Crimson performance. Eichner once again was the Harvard harrier challenging the pacesetters, showing that he is indeed ready to run this season. "This sport is more mental than anything else," he said. "You just have to decide to work hard and stay up at the front and no one will beat...
This time Jensen is armed with a massive technical analysis that he considers the last word on racial testing. Titled Bias in Mental Testing (The Free Press), the book is not concerned with genetics or the causes of the black-white IQ gap, but only with the merits and validity of the actual tests...
...between black and white children in the U.S., according to Jensen. Says he: "There is no way to discriminate or distinguish between the average ten-year-old black and the average 8½-year-old white. The tests look the same, but the black child has a lower mental age. It looks more like a developmental lag than a cultural difference...
...from printing press to college syllabus. Yet it has never been necessary to go to school to acquire a taste for Hawkes. At its best his writing is vividly accessible, and almost always disturbing. His recurrent subject is the eruption of some dark, violent passion into the turmoil of mental ife, and his prose strains not only to describe this event but to re-create it. Hawkes at peak intensity is the literary equivalent of delirium...