Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beatrice (Carolyn Duffy), a divorcee and widow, considers her life a failure. Her marriage was a disaster, her career is nonexistent (she earns a measly $50 a week caring for unbearable invalids), her hopes for the future are dim, and her children, well, one is recovering from a mental breakdown and the other is busy experimenting with radioactive seeds...
That year a whole lot of new characters hit the streets. They weren't homeless types, but deinstitutionalized mental patients, freed from county facilities by a new county policy that succeeded wonderfully at freeing Mercer County from fiscal responsibility (i.e., matching funds for Trenton). Many of these people were on the edge of control, their stability dependant on medication...
...that brutal treatment can breed brutal behavior. Child abuse is one of the most common precursors of juvenile delinquency. Severe beatings can cause central nervous system dysfunction that may lead to violent behavior. Attorney Mones says well over 90% of children who commit parricide have suffered physical, sexual and mental abuse. Unlike thousands of other severely abused children, they are finally tipped into violent retaliation by extreme distress or the opening of an opportunity. After testing, most are found to be suicidal; indeed, many attempt suicide within six months of the murder...
...have to further alter their expectations. As Farrell points out, despite their interest in openness and sensitivity, "most women still emphasize economics over intimacy" in seeking a male partner. Chances are they cannot have it both ways. "Many of the characteristics that make a man successful in his profession -- mental toughness, discipline, intensity, willingness to work long hours away from home -- can make him difficult for women to deal with," says Farrell. He believes there are many sensitive, willing "new men" out there, but they are rejected by women on the traditional grounds that they are not successful enough...
However, there was reason to be worried at the start. Tufts opened up a 6-1 lead in the first set, aided by some of what Lem called "mental lapses" by Harvard. A timeout by Lem proved futile as the Jumbos increased its lead...