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Word: mentality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moral settlement of America. First there was the frontier, the wild places where savages roamed and life was dangerous and action was survival. The pioneer, the early cowboy, the vigilante all kept guns loaded and shot fast. One did not survive by regulations and laws and merely mental, abstract things. Justice was a rougher business, and even at that ran a distant second to coming out of it alive. "The essential American soul," D.H. Lawrence once extravagantly wrote, "is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charging Up Capitol Hill | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

...Kill me! Kill me! I have AIDS!" yelled Joseph Markowski, a drifter and prostitute, as he tried to grab a Los Angeles bank guard's gun. Detained for a 72-hour mental-health observation, he was released prematurely by county health officials the following day. Meanwhile the police were investigating a disturbing item found in his clothes: a receipt for $9 from a Los Angeles plasma center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIDS: Anatomy of a Murder Charge | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

...supervise jungle training in Okinawa. Once again, he never let up, working long hours and seven-day weeks. His wife was not with him, and toward the end of his tour, the strain seemed to trigger a depression. He voluntarily checked himself into Bethesda Naval Hospital for mental exhaustion and stayed three weeks. North has never spoken of the experience, and it was subsequently expunged from his record. When he was released, he was pronounced "fit for duty." North was helped through this trying period in his marriage by the works of Dr. James Dobson, a Christian counselor whose films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: True Belief Unhampered by Doubt | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

Pihl will be taking an administrative post atMcLean Hospital, a Harvard-affiliated teachinghospital staffed by the psychiatric department ofthe Medical School. He will create a program toeducate the community about mental health issues...

Author: By Sophia VAN Wingerden, | Title: Summer School Directors Leave | 7/7/1987 | See Source »

...idle threat. Last month in Pensacola, Fla., a judge ordered a 14-year-old infected with the virus locked up in a local hospital's psychiatric ward for more than a week after hearing evidence that he persisted in sexual activity. The youth was then sent to a state mental health facility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEALTH & FITNESS Cracking Down on the Victims | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

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