Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Added Assistant Coach Dan Leist, "People were hustling and not making the mental mistakes that had been hurting us in the other games...
Like Barry, they are nearly all Thursday's children: neither fair of face nor full of grace, they always have far to go. They are "hard-to-place" children, candidates for adoption who have mental or physical handicaps, are siblings who do not wish to be separated, belong to minority groups or are simply older than six and no longer cuddly. But Thursday's children are on television virtually every day of the week. With the cooperation of adoption agencies, an estimated 50 stations throughout the U.S. carry regular features on them, usually as part of local newscasts...
Before sending them off to their appointed University stations. Anderson would give the newcomer a nutshell history and mental tourguide about the ins and outs of Harvard. "They are always interested in how the University works. They ask, 'Where does Harvard get its money,' or 'How is Harvard run,' or if they are from a totalitarian country. 'How does the national government inform you what research to do?," 'Anderson explains, mixing bemusement with feigned disbelief...
...come, so there is a space problem." In addition to taking constant notes for next year's event, the marshal marches in the scholarly procession that morning, dressed in academic gown, and awards the dozen or so honorary degrees to be given that year. He also takes copious mental notes about what went well, what went poorly and what could be changed for the next year...
...punishment becomes more commonplace in this country. But the Evans case raises once again the questions surrounding capital punishment, and not only because of its bizarre and tragic circumstances. It deserves not merely a discussion of how to "improve" capital punishment--which would not answer the larger question of mental pain--but also reconsideration of whether there can be any method of capital punishment that is humane...