Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other competition do you find such diversity. The decathlon is all track-and-field-related, but in the pentathlon you're fencing, riding, swimming, running, shooting. Not only does it require power, speed, strategy and the ability to endure pain, but it also requires tremendous mental control. In a sense, the modern pentathlon is the greatest training you can do in life...
...ranked No. 2. She is studying with her third coach, a Soviet named Emmanuil Kaidanov who coaches the men's team at Penn State, where she is enrolled on a full athletic scholarship. Kaidanov, she says, is teaching her the why of fencing. "Mine has always been a mental game, as fencing has to be, but I've never been as conscious as I am now. My weapon," she says with satisfaction, "is penetrating the target more accurately...
...startling study was enough to drive men to drink. According to a report released last week by the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, bourbon, America's beloved corn squeezings, contains female-type sex hormones that may be responsible for the "feminized" appearance-enlarged breasts and beardless faces-of some alcoholic men. The culprit, wrote Judith Gavaler, a Medical Researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, may be phytoes- trogen, a female-type hormone found in corn...
...idea that poets should keep the child in themselves alive. It was the "pseudo-immaturity" in Emily Dickinson, he argues, that left her "appearing to posterity as perpetually unfinished and willfully eccentric." He deplores the contemporary tendency to venerate "almost any poet who can produce evidence of medical mental care." Poetry, for Larkin, is emphatically "an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are." For him the two writers who have done that best in recent times are Thomas Hardy ("many times over the best body of poetic work this century so far has to show") and John Betjeman...
...contentions that Pancoast may have been hypnotized into believing he killed Morgan. They needed less than five hours to find Pancoast guilty. Next week the same jurors will consider a second Pancoast plea, of not guilty for reasons of insanity. If found insane, Pancoast will be sent to a mental hospital. If not, he faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment...