Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...April 7, he was encouraged by his time-27:56-and his strength at the finish. Whether a lack of iron is the answer, Salazar wants to believe that the problem lies in his body, not his head. Says he: "I had so many people telling me it was mental, and after a while I started believing...
...love my job," Haviaras says emphatically. He adds that although it consumes a lot of physical and mental energy "it is the best job I will ever have--outside writing...
...seen through Raskolnikov's eyes. And while Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is told in the third person, there is no real narrator, causing the reader to slip from mind to mind with no perceptible voice to bridge the gaps. All that floating free sometimes can give readers mental seasickness. To avoid this, most authors use plot for ballast. The plot structures the thoughts, the thoughts give added resonance to the "real events." In A.N. Wilson's Wise Virgin, however, the balance breaks down, and plot and ideas end up in a predictable and boring...
Homosexuality and bisexuality are not diseases. They are not mental illnesses to be cured. That at least one out of 10 Americans is gay is not a statistic that will diminish. These people are no better or worse then the rest of society as a result of their sexual preferences...
...jokes and talk. Their surroundings seem to be a city seen as a jungle with the dancers giving us the undercurrents of the urban experience. While their dancing was technically clean, sharp and powerful, what was most impressive was that though the dancing demanded incredible concentration, both physical and mental, all six men created an exuberant rapport with the audience. As the music intensified and the rhythm sped up, the dancers' steps increased in complexity. Movements became more short, sleak and synchronized. Acrobatics introduced--the men worked in pairs. They struck poses, leapt across and up, turned with their arms...