Word: mentalism
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Except her job was in jeopardy, like, 5 times in one episode, so her nanosecond of brilliance belies her true mental faculties...
...sewage flows directly into the sea. "If the sewage is not treated, there will be a high level of metallic elements in the sea, including mercury," says Mohamed Elmi, the World Health Organization's Middle East regional adviser for food and chemicals. "[Mercury] affects your nervous system and your mental capability and capacity. It's a very poisonous metal. And if there is a high level of parasites in the fish then you also have the problem of parasitic diseases. We don't know what is in the sewage cocktail...
...thin though it may seem—for a world coming apart at its very fabric. “The Humbling,” Roth’s thirtieth book and his fourth novel in as many years, is a brief and anguished meditation on the social, physical, and mental decay of an individual whose identity is ripped out from beneath him. Axler’s life, constituted by ability to perform on and off the stage, proffers itself as transient. His only recourse is to cling to those who still have the will to perform, but it?...
...bare narrative that alternates predominantly between dialogue with Axler and his inner-monologue, could essentially serve as an allegory for Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy. The entirety of the novel, from Axler’s time in a mental institution following his breakdown, to his affair with a 20-years-junior lesbian family friend named Pegeen Mike (after a character in Synge’s “Playboy of the Western World”), and his final projection fantasy and eventual ‘humbling?...
...discussion on the preparation that Harvard and the HRDC offered was critical. The panelists were unequivocally positive about the training—mental and professional—they received at Harvard. They lauded HRDC productions for being student-run and produced. Commenting on how this affects a young theater professional, writer Erica R. Lipez ’05 said, “It gives you a little bit of control over your destiny in an industry and city that doesn’t want to give you that...