Word: mentalism
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...instructive to watch a literary writer operate in a genre environment, where plot and pacing trump beautiful writing, where the thrill of what comes next is more important than the nuance of the now. When Chabon gets a little flowery, instead of marveling at his elegant prose, one makes mental let's-hurry-it-up-already gestures. But he has clearly mastered a basic truth about the mystery genre:it has an expressive power beyond the uses to which it is generally put. Solving mysteries has an existential meaning for Holmes. To him, it's the "essential business of human...
...College of the Overwhelmed, Chief of Mental Health Services (MHS) Richard D. Kadison writes about how some students come from cultures where “it is unacceptable to talk to strangers about personal feelings,” while others “may feel that mental illness brings shame to their families...
...Cserny made her return after missing Saturday’s game with an ankle injury. While missing only one of six attempts from the line, Cserny sank only four of 13 in the paint and was unsuccessful in all three of her three-point tries. However, it was a mental, not physical, affliction to which Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith attributed Reka’s uncharacteristic performance...
Personally, I would like to congratulate a school that has been championing its efforts to improve mental health on severely curtailing its mid-year break. Over the past year, Harvard has been publicly declaring its new dedication to improving the mental health status of the notoriously over-stressed, over-worked Harvard student. The plethora of discussion revolving around mental health (and its regretful state at our university) has motivated the administration to create a new position in the system, appointing Paul J. Barreira to be Director of University Counseling, Academic Support, and Mental Health Services. A pilot program was launched...
Cynics will argue that the case of child suffrage differs greatly from black or women’s suffrage and will question a child’s mental capacity to make an informed decision. Mental capacity is not, however, listed in our laws as a requisite for voting rights. Nowhere in America are citizens barred from voting on account of their sub-par IQs. Further, there is no test of a citizen’s knowledge about issues prior to voting. The democratic ideal is that all citizens of a nation deserve a vote, regardless of their perceived competence...