Word: mentality
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...undisputed that the petitioner will suffer physical pain from breast engorgement if she is not permitted additional time,” he wrote. “Such physical pain constitutes an unfair burden on the mental energies required for this examination...
...that includes a scantily clad witch-maid and an enormous, talking, sarcastic cat named Behemoth, Satan spreads chaos throughout the city, befuddling bureaucrats and toying with the populace’s deepest yearnings for consumer goods. Meanwhile, a character known only as the Master, condemned to live in a mental institution after writing a historical account of Jesus’s crucifixion—a book that becomes a meta-novel within the text—breaks out to serve as the hero. He yearns for the love of his former muse and mistress, Margarita. She, in turn, makes...
Henry James’s “The Portrait of a Lady” saved me from a mental ulcer. The Crimson’s books editor hates Henry James. I believe his exact statement to me, while discussing the venerable author, was “Ew.” I admit, the prose style is a little dusty, and James certainly takes his sweet time unspooling his stories. But I had an appetite, and he just hit the spot. My spring academic schedule was the intellectual equivalent of a triple-shot espresso. I took my first timid sips...
...wear and tear of the four-match weekend took its toll on the Harvard women’s volleyball squad, as the squad fell to Northeastern, 3-1 (30-28, 29-31, 24-30, 19-30), yesterday evening at Lavietes Pavilion. “The mental stamina through four matches for the weekend is tough,” head coach Jennifer Weiss said. “We started out awesome, but they pushed at us, and we didn’t respond.” Hot off Saturday’s victories against Hartford (6-9) and NJIT...
...right there with some of the top teams,” Shuman said. In the aftermath of the McLaughlin, the Crimson players know the flaws in their swings but still point to the need to recover confidence, so crucial an element in a game that preys upon anyone whose mental approach is not in order, as the biggest key. “Playing well is the No. 1 determinant of confidence,” Mayer said. “The nice thing is that we have two weeks until the next tournament to work on practicing and playing well...