Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There was a lot of promise, but there were times that our mental game wasn't there and we didn't capitalize on the opportunities that we had," co-captain Mika Sampson said...
...BEING PROPOSItioned for online sex by "Demonboy" [ESSAY, Oct. 23], Barbara Ehrenreich does not offer any answers to the question of how such easily encountered pornography affects children. Nor does she have a clue as to the questions that need to be asked. She solicits our sympathy for her mental confusion by confiding that she "actually believed" technology would solve all the isolation and disillusionment that plague society, while she is stunningly ignorant of the fact that it is our dependence on science and invention rather than on rectitude and intellectual integrity that has contributed to our catastrophic slide into...
...time the final scenes show us Bishop undergoing psychoanalysis in a mental hospital, we realize what has been building all along: the whole play is an allegory for male sexual development, with each stage of the classic Oedipus complex brought to life in gory detail. Bishop on the couch, caught between infantile mother-love and the prospect of a more mature sexual relationship, is the play's real setting...
Nora Dickey and Willard each take on two roles--Dickey as the father's mistress and a girl in the mental hospital with a crush on Bishop, Willard as Bishop's father and psychiatrist. These roles are largely instrumental, and they are executed well; Willard, constrained by a stereotyped character of the father, achieves some genuinely dramatic scenes with McCarthy in the mental hospital. Both of Dickey's roles call for broad comedy, which she performs expertly. As she proved in last year's "Goodnight Desdemona," Dickey has a knack for zaniness, and she is funny almost every time...
...Henry Murray Research Center of Radcliffe College has won a total of $1 million in grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to compile studies relating to African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Native-Americans and Latinos...