Word: mentalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only a cerebral Gumby would remain unsculpted by the mental body-building required to translate James Joyce's Ulysses into Mandarin Chinese. In spite of extensive time spent in Beijing doing just that, Patrick Kavanagh's latest project, his first novel, is not so stylistically influenced as one might think. Rather than plunging into boggy streams of consciousness, Kavanagh emulates Joyce's focus on style more than his actual stylistic techniques, resulting in an ornately wrought work with a commanding sense of place and experience...
...university administrators, lobbyists, mental health counselors and police representatives contend that the full version of ACCRA could, if passed, make, victims more reluctant to report crimes on campus...
...were getting on top of the mental side and wanting to win. If we had made it, I think we could have kept going farther. It's disappointing that we didn...
...first we were inclined to think of the tale of the teacher and her sixth-grade lover as mere daytime-television trash in the flesh--the teacher-pupil angle slipping a ghost of incest into the narrative, and no doubt a touch of mental illness. On the other hand, we have gone pretty far in exhausting the categories of the forbidden. The love that dare not speak its name has become public, ordinary and settled into domestic life, as wholesome as Fred MacMurray in a cardigan. The President's penis and its recreations are routinely discussed in public without much...
...intimate relations with Yeltsin's family and presidential chief of staff VALENTIN YUMASHEV. The next thing to watch for are leaks in the Berezovsky-controlled media--which include Russia's biggest TV network--questioning the President's ability to rule, based on deep concerns about Yeltsin's declining mental faculties...