Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FEAR AND VENGEANCE, sexual transgression and mental torture: that's what it's all about. Set in the deceptively innocent confines of a remote country house, this year's Lowell House Opera. The Turn of the Screw, quickly disintegrates into a horribly perverted fairy tale. The opera is an adaptation of Henry James' story, with the libretto by Myfanwy Piper and the bewitchingly eerie music by Benjamin Britten...
...tale This comparative starkness, us concentrate not on the twisting and turning the plot, but rather on the theme of the diabolical dimensions of evil. The ambiguous question remains whether the ghosts did physically return to harass the governess and her charges or whether they were a sort of mental residue that had not yet been erased from the minds of these abused children. The story never resolves this point, only concluding with the pessimistic realization that the good can never completely vanquish the bad. Although the governess manages to banish the ghosts from the house, their taint has already...
Whether or not they talk about it, foos maniacs agree that a lot of the game is mental. "There's a lot of pysch in it," says Harrington Lin agrees. "Foosball enthusiasts tend to believe that they are the best players anywhere. Whenever you play foosball you should make certain to be as arrogant as possible when you get a goal...
...HORRIBLE MENTAL DISORDER," "a satanic deviance," and "an unspeakable evil." For much of American history the lifestyles of one-tenth of our population were thus fallaciously maligned. During the last 15 years American homosexuals "coming out of the closet" have finally gained a handful of civil rights, putting them well on their way to legal equality. But recent chilling developments threaten both these hard-won gains and a far more basic right--life itself...
...decision overturned the conviction and death sentence of Glen Burton Ake, who killed a minister and his wife in Oklahoma in 1979 at the start of a monthlong crime spree. Ake pleaded insanity and asked for a psychiatric examination to evaluate his mental state at the time of the crime. The state refused and unsuccessfully argued before the Supreme Court that providing psychiatrists would prove too costly. Ake now faces a new trial. The wider effect of the court's ruling was not immediately clear. Forty-two states as well as the Federal Government already make psychiatrists available to poor...