Word: mentalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...duplicated onto some other machine, stored on a disc, reworked by smart programmers or appropriated by Microsoft. Because of the stuff it is made of, or the way its parts are arranged, the brain is a machine that is capable of creating an "I." Brains can summon mental worlds into being, and computers...
There's obvious truth to the idea that physical fitness increases mental alertness. But as Ovid, a Latin poet (whose thousand choicest verses my new-found energy has allowed me the chance to read), points out, "Aliudque cupido, mens aliud suadet. Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor" ("I desire one thing; reason persuades me of something else. I see the better way to go and approve of it, but I follow the worse path...
...when the Crimson took a 3-1 lead in the third inning of Game Two, only to load the bases with Tigers to start the fourth, thoughts of hexes, letdowns, and any other conceivable mental barriers danced through the heads of Harvard's players...
...third game, Harvard scored in each of the first six innings to take a 20-2 lead. With its mental block lifted, the Crimson's physical superiority was finally free to flex its muscles...
...presume to void the contract. They can only determine (to the dismay of people in Rauch Kennedy's position) that owing to human incapacity or error, a valid contract was never entered into in the first place. For centuries the standards for this were clear and high: mental illness of either spouse, for instance, or impotence at the time of marriage. In 1968 only 338 decrees of nullity were granted in the U.S. But in the early 1960s, John Keating, a young American priest, wrote an influential doctoral dissertation summarizing Vatican rulings that justified the use of "psychological insights...