Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tribute to the mental toughness of the defense that there was no letdown as the Harvard turnovers frequently forced the defense to rush back onto field with only a moment's rest...
Harvard suffered from a slight mental lapse during the third game. The Crimson again dominated early, jumping out to a 6-2 lead. Marist battled back behind superb blocking by sophomore outside hitter Julie Gosewisch, taking a 10-6 lead after a Hildebrandt kill. Harvard recovered to take a 12-11 lead after a Marist error, but the Red Foxes scored the last five points of the third game, winning 15-12 after a kill by junior middle blocker Leigh Shillington...
Early in the third game, the Crimson again seemed to suffer from a mental lapse as the Sea Wolves jumped out to a 12-5 lead. A Denniston kill began a Harvard rally, and the Crimson climbed back to score seven consecutive points, tying the game at 12-12. A Jellison kill from the right side of the net down the middle of the court gave Harvard a 13-12 lead, but after a long serve by Jellin and a Miranda kill, Stony Brook tied the game at 13-13. A block by the Sea Wolves' Alisse Gossett allowed Stony...
...Mara is compulsive, jealous, hyper-analytical and destructive. She "walks as if the floor is thin ice. She checks beneath the cushion of a chair before sitting; she counts the knives in the silverware drawer." Through Mara, Budnitz explicates mental illness and the rationality of murder. This is too ambitious for her plot and narrative, especially given Mara's stream-of-consciousness rants. Had the rest of the novel not been so richly descriptive, this technique might have been effective. Instead, each thought staggers, laden with a false sense of importance and significance...
...avatar (a possessor of a Universal Mind), as well as the reincarnation of the Prophet Isaiah. At present, I am on hold, waiting to translate (die and take my body with me)." Last, a South Carolina minister said, "When we fully understand and accept the power of strenuous mental exercise to increase our capacity for works of genius, we may all ride through space on a beam of mental light and meet Einstein himself...