Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...occasionally rattle the city, raising fears of a 1906 redux. Perhaps it is because many people come to San Francisco to flee their pasts. Whatever the reason, a great many San Franciscans are unable to go with the flow. "There's an inordinate number of people with serious mental-health problems," says Social Services Director Edwin Sarsfield. The Zodiac killer, who claims in letters that he murdered 37 people in the '60s and '70s, was never caught. Sara Jane Moore tried to shoot Gerald Ford in San Francisco. The Symbionese Liberation Army was nurtured there. Dan White...
...points, and a year's supply of mental floss, what American philosopher, whose latest book has been ensconced on the New York Times best seller list for 40 weeks, described the stance of a pregnant woman as "like a kangaroo wearing Earth Shoes...
Moses is still seven years between losses. Starting from the outer lane, he won the 400-meter hurdles (47.76), a 102nd consecutive success. "It's been a terrific mental tussle this week," he said, "putting up with the pressure of all the hype about the streak." Still he seemed as cool as ever, as his wife Myrella testified. "He's really blasé about the streak," she confided. "He says, 'If I lose, then I lose. I'll just go out and start another streak.' Me? I'd be devastated...
After refuting the pure biochemical basis for schizophrenia, the classic mental disorder that has been so often studied by biochemists and psychobiologists, the authors arrive at the central grist for their mill: sociobiology. In fact, at times, Not in Our Genes seems like a diatribe against Lewtontin's ideological opponent Edward O. Wilson. Quoting Wilson repeatedly. Lewontin points to the entomologist as the prototypical biological determinist...
...anyone in the alumni office is listening, just send me a blank envelope every year. Spare me the full-color pamphlets; I'd rather stick to my own mental pictures. As for my 50-yard-line seat at The Game, pass it along to someone who might like to actually see the guy in his Lit and Arts section score the winning touchdown...