Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ruined his life." Born to a French-Canadian mother and an Algerian father who left the family when his son was seven, Lepine studied intermittently at junior colleges and expressed the hope that he would be accepted at the university. Though he had no history of criminal behavior or mental illness, he existed on the margins; a loner who enjoyed war movies, he was unable to sustain relationships with women and claimed to have been turned down by the military for being "asocial...
...Sure we're beat up, but I'm not sure what's worse, the mental thing or the physical thing," Roby said. "There's just no reason for games like this. It's just hard to swallow...
...unique among the earlier poets in having a troubled childhood. Delmore Schwartz's relationship with his mother was also occasionally explosive, Simpson writes. And Robert Lowell hinted at the sadness of his childhood in his later confessional poems, one of which describes his fictional stay in a mental asylum where all the patients were from Harvard and all the monitors came from Boston University...
...control measures, Brady came before a Senate committee in his wheelchair to deliver a blunt plea. Congress, he said, was "gutless" for failing to pass the Brady amendment, which would require a seven-day waiting period so that police could determine if a handgun purchaser was a felon or mental defective prohibited from buying firearms. Lawmakers who oppose the bill, Brady suggested, should "try being in my wheels for just...
Those who took Psychology I may recognize this phenomenon as the mental defense mechanism known as "denial." The facts conflict with their beliefs, therefore the facts do not exist...