Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...punishment," although this definition has been, challenged by various regimes, including the United Kingdom in reference to the accusations in Northern Ireland. However, even under this broad definition. Al takes a commendably strong stand against all forms of officially sanctioned brutality. Nor does the study exclude psychological or mental brutality from those practices it condemns. For this reason, Al censures the Soviet Union for its treatment of psychiatric prisoners, who are often political prisoners interned for "anti-social" acts. The use of drugs and isolation techniques in these Soviet hospitals has long been known and the study rightly deplore...
...Perini Construction dug this hole and started to fill it in, they or someone else must have dug another hole of approximately the same size in the same place and filled that once in too. By some standards this would be considered wasteful duplication, but allowing for the hypothetical mental aberration imposed during residency in the armed forces and taking into account the incalculable enjoyment bestowed upon passers-by as they gazed at work-in-progress, the individuals involved deserve praise rather than criticism...
...thoroughly satisfying, bringing the requisite twists and red herrings to a believable and unexpected conclusion. It achieves some of its snap at the expense of the characters--for the most part a lively gallery of caricatures--and the writing style, which has moments of undeniable clunkiness ("Brian's mental capabilities did not include that of judging what was too obvious to require saying....Sandy gave him a look of hatred.") But because of Silver's lack of pretensions, these shortcomings rarely prove troublesome and sometimes even help. For instance, Lauren's own Bess and George--her wacky Southern Californian roommate...
...last album showed once again that he knew what was what in the 1980s, just as he had known in the sixties and seventies. Like his Third World Rasta Man, "he lived up to his part, 'and died' with a cause in his heart"--concerned with the precarious mental health of so many in our generation...
...read such a passage in Hustler magazine, it probably would have merited only a mental wince. But coming across the paragraph in the publication of a Harvard undergraduate organization left me shocked and sickened I believe the Harvard campus is, by and large, a good place for women and have always felt comfortable here. So it was sharply disillusioning to discover that any Harvard club would woo its members to a party with the promise of a "bevy of slobbering bovines fresh for the slaughter," ensuring that all will have the chance to "slice into one of these meaty...