Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about the championship can be as important as actually racing in it. For the most part, a crew race takes place in the mind. When a team comes away from a Regatta with both heavyweight and lightweight varsity victories--as Harvard did yesterday--it is more a demonstration of mental toughness than physical stamina...
...mental preparation," Varsity heavyweight coxswain Jim Crick said. "You don't want to just get physically pumped up before the race and start running on adrenaline." Only through an entire season of successful pre-race mental training is a team able to give what it takes to win the Sprints, Crick said...
Varsity lacrosse player Dean Graham learned the importance of crew's brand of pre-game mental preparation when he went by the Harvard tent to give the team a pre-game pep-talk. "Hey dudes, get psyched and let's go kick some butt out there today," he said...
...Ruling Class tells the story of a Jack, a British aristocrat who also happens to think he's the god of love. When Jack's father, the 13th Earl of Gurney, dies by hanging himself accidentally--don't ask--Jack returns from the mental hospital to inherit his peerage. The other members of the Gurney family move to have Jack committed so that they can oversee the estate. While they plot for the majority of the first act, Jack preaches about love...
Positive thinking can surely be a powerful tonic, believes Dr. Jack Gorman, who is principal investigator for a National Institute of Mental Health study on the relationship between the course of the AIDS virus and the psyche. Preliminary evidence, he says, suggests that "depression and stress have bad effects on the immune system, while an optimistic and hopeful attitude has good effects." Other doctors continue to be skeptical about such thinking. "We all like to think that we have some power over what happens," says Dr. Richard Price, head of neurology at New York City's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer...