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Word: mentalities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...numerous doors left unopened began to multiply in my mind until they formed themselves into a mental list. Somewhat sheepishly mentioning my "list" to a friend, I was surprised when she grinned and yanked out of her bag a piece of spiral notebook paper on which she had scrawled all the movies she plans to see before graduation. Another friend produced a typewritten document of all the places he plans to go before he leaves fair Harvard...

Author: By Amanda P. Fortini, | Title: 100 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU GRADUATE | 4/3/1998 | See Source »

...isolating, especially as I began putting myself in situations in which alcohol was readily available. This year I finally gave in. I stopped castigating others for having fake IDs, though I never did come close to getting one. I started wondering how I could have wasted so much mental energy condemning my peers for drinking underage. I began to develop favorite beers and mixed drinks, despite being just 20. I even came close to getting drunk. (Don't laugh...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: On the Drinking Question | 4/1/1998 | See Source »

...later years Spock acknowledged that he had not been an ideal husband, or a perfect father to his two sons, Michael and John. "I never kissed them [when they were young]," he said. His wife Jane, feeling neglected by her husband's fame and frequent travels, struggled with mental illness and alcoholism. The two were divorced in 1976. Jane died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Loved Children: DR. BENJAMIN SPOCK (1903-1998) | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...impossible and unnatural. We want a sophisticated art of seduction. Feminist excesses have paralyzed and neutered white, upper-middle-class young men, as should be obvious to any visitor to the campuses of the elite schools. I want a society of lusty men and lusty women whose physical and mental energies are in exuberant free flow. While men must behave honorably (Governors and Presidents should not be dropping their pants in front of female employees or secretly preying on buxom young interns), women must also watch how they dress and behave. For every gross male harasser, there are 10 female...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: A Call for Lustiness | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

...Yeltsin may have a problem -- he has little physical or mental stamina, and his announcement today was the longest he?d been seen in public for weeks. If he?s unable to find the energy to maintain his tight control, this could be his last hurrah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yeltsin to Government: You're Fired | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

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