Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...infidelity based on the actual evidence. Meanwhile, Bouchard has also added two characters to the original script, a pair of mute, apparently insane figures who remain onstage on a raised wooden platform throughout the play. Whether these two silent figures, clutching at the empty air, represent Woyzeck's deteriorating mental state or whether they are intended as symbols of an extreme form of victimization remains unclear...
When the bar was raised to 7 ft. 4 in., however, the tri-captain lost his form in his first two attempts. "A new height always creates a mental block that's tough to overcome," he said. "On my last try, though, I would have made it with a thinner pair of shorts," Embree added...
...mental mistakes are the biggest problem. There are kids on the team who were playing high school ball last year," Cronin said. This is the first year that freshmen have been eligible for varsity baseball and seven freshmen are on the squad...
...think that even when we don't formally define such terms as "crazy" we know perfectly well what we are talking about. I shall apply these unscientific terms to anyone who has gone to a psychiatrist in a state of crisis or anyone who has entered a mental hospital. I shall apply them to anyone who suffers from those inexplicable symptoms that seem as common as sunshine: a sense of communion with the supernatural, a sense of whirling lights and mysterious smells, a yearning for violence and the serenity of bloodshed. I shall even apply the term "crazy" to anyone...
...crime, perception of God and the Devil, alcoholism, and hysterical love. They are aberrant in respect to the social norms, but does that make them traits of madness? Are they even philosophically foolish? Again, these questions are useless, because there is no definition of madness. The way one regards mental illness is a result of the way one views life, and Friedrich seems unable to conceive of an existence where happiness is not an end nor self-preservation a rule of logic, where "those crazy people you see on the street" are perhaps not so crazy...