Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talent to make it big in the pros," said Fish. "Perhaps his only weakness is in his mental discipline. The difference between the top pros and mediocre players is strong mental control...
...Szydlik are deep threats. Extremely talented group. Will test Harvard defensive secondary. OFFENSIVE LINE: Only George Kostakos returns from last year's starting unit. This group had difficulty getting untracked first two weekends. This is the squad's biggest question mark and potentially its biggest problem. Has made many mental mistakes. The key to the whole offense. Even OFFENSIVE LINE: One of the Tribe's question marks. It's a line that has an average weight of almost 250 lbs. Sophomore center Scott Perkins is the lightest, at 230, but he just might be the best. This...
Harvard's next major tournament is the ECACs at Princeton on October 11. Fish predicted that the importance of this event will bring forth the necessary mental preparation his squad lacked this weekend...
...spying on him. Stanley phones Cliff Wainwright, a doctor and an old friend, and asks for help with Steve: "I'm afraid he's mad." This judgment is confirmed by Dr. Alfred Nash, a crusty old psychiatrist who examines Steve and diagnoses acute schizophrenia. Nash asks the father about mental illness elsewhere in the family, and Stanley opines that ex-Wife Nowell "is a bit mad." He explains, "Her sense of other people's not good. They can be sweet to her, and they can be foul to her, and that's about as much scope as they...
...most fleeting but poignant moments (and probably the only one in which Baker's off-the-wall pacing has any effect), Schepisi moves directly from a shot of a glamourous Susan in her artsy Soho 'walk-up to one of her staring out of the window in a mental ward after the first of many nervous breakdowns. Scrubbed of all make-up and eroded with rivers of tears, Streep's pinched expression carries more punch in this one scene than Hare's screenplay does in the entire film...