Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speeches that often border on the lyrical. There are jokes with a personal stamp, characteristic expressions, a characteristic cadence. After he has left the outraged Natalie for two days, he returns to her with a speech about a pool game that evokes both a concrete scene and a mental state with startling insight. Sure, there are some problems. A few scenes too many end with a shouted "Oh, go away!" or a slamming door. The character of Natalie seems nowhere near as complex as Johnny's so that the story she narrates occasionally seems to escape her comprehension. The flashback...
...reflect California's population gains. But he still managed to give the Republicans only about 18 safe districts, meaning that the Democrats could wind up with a nine-seat advantage this fall. "It resembles nothing so much as a jigsaw puzzle designed by an inmate of a mental institution," wrote Dan Walters, a columnist for the Sacramento Union. Said Burton with a shrug: "It's my contribution to modern...
...setting is a mental sanitarium. The head office is guarded by a maximum-security chain-link fence suggesting a concentration camp; sheaves of yellowing files conjure up a strangulating bureaucratic maze. Roote (George Martin), the government official in command, is a slightly dotty ex-colonel given to gung-ho sloganizing, lapses of memory and bouts of paranoia. His second in command, Gibbs (Richard Kavanaugh), lusts for Roote's post, is as obsequiously duplicitous as lago and possesses the mental cast of a Nazi stormtrooper. Miss Cutts (Amy Van Nostrand), the head nurse, is one of Pinter's Venus...
Then the neighbors, who had gathered outside, became quite concerned about my mental health, offering me tea as I told them what a stupid fool I really am. A decade passed before a cop arrived to fill out forms and bestow a traffic citation and a bill for the tow truck. He drove me back to the house, asking me how long I'd be in town and what I was doing that night. "Feeling guilty," I answered miserably...
...circle must be broken if we are to remove the "thinkables" from power and make "rational alternatives" possible. The challenges is to unlearn helplessness and to channel fears of nuclear destruction not into apathy but into action. In Dr. Mack's words, "We must move away from the win/lose, mentality...to the mental and emotional context of win/win, lose/lose, of we and they, that the development of nuclear weapons requires." This struggle is far from easy, and it ultimately must be waged within the mind of each individual. But one need not struggle completely alone--groups such as The Council...