Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bullet's going to come from, then I'm really going to go crazy." And then I said to myself, "I've got the best protection the British government can offer -- it's their job to worry about that. It's not my job." That was a kind of mental trick. What I had to worry about was mentally dealing with the threat and arguing my case and continuing to be what...
That poignant exchange is at the moral heart of Marvin's Room, an unflinching yet surprisingly funny play about illness, physical and mental, that opened off-Broadway this month after runs in Chicago and Hartford. Playwright Scott McPherson, 32, has an original voice, balanced between sentiment and surrealism, and a gift for creating characters who are more than the sum of their behavior. He also has AIDS, which gives him premature sensitivity about the importance of help and healing but imperils his talent just as it is emerging...
THOSE WHO ARGUE for ROTC also say that without ROTC students, Harvard would lose a niche of diversity filled by those who yearn to combine being a student "with the complementary physical and mental challenges of the military," as the council subcommittee report says...
...harm to the remaining Western hostages may now be told. True, the final installments must still await the freeing of two German captives. But Anderson's release last week seemed to unburden other American ex-hostages of their "survivor's guilt" and uncork fresh memories of physical pain and mental anguish. If a single thread ran through the recollections, it was the abject despair each man experienced when confined in solitary, and the mutual appreciation, gratitude and respect each felt for his fellow hostages when they were penned together. As for their own fortitude, they left the marveling to others...
...ideological course. Under the leadership of Dr. Pedro Rosello, the prostatehood New Progressive Party unleashed a campaign of fear, aimed at equating the "Si," or affirmative response, with a vote of confidence to the governor for an additional term as well as an increase in crime, drug-addiction, alcoholism, mental illness, unemployment, social upheaval...