Word: mentality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...requirements," Tam Binh's director Trung continues. "In so many cases, they are not totally or really abandoned - they still have parents out there and sometimes even other family who come to visit them. For example, the mother may have been sent to jail or is in a mental institution, or the parents may have leprosy - so we cannot let them go." Some of the children also have physical or mental handicaps that make them harder to place. In the end, only about 30% of Tam Binh's children eventually get adopted. The same situation applies to the rest...
...Vietnam's rules of adoption call for Jolie to send the orphanage regular reports and photos of Pax's progress. "For Sang's case," says Trung, Tam Binh's director, "she is required to send a report every six months updating us about his health, mental development, hobbies - and a photo," says Trung. "It's required for the first three years. After three years, it's not required because we can see if the kids are being taken care of for the first three years so we can be assured they are in the good home...
...guys’ faces. They had a couple of really easy goals in transition.” The Crimson committed 10 penalties, resulting in 10:30 of box time for the team and suggesting that the losing streak has also resulted in a bit of mental fatigue. “The effort was not an issue,” Flood said. “We just needed to maintain composure. We’re making mistakes as a team.” —Staff writer Malcom A. Glenn can be reached at mglenn@fas.harvard.edu...
...Escher, Bach 28 years ago. Purely by chance, it was given to Hofstadter for Christmas one year, and he photographed it and put the picture in his book. I told Hofstadter, who loves this kind of spectacular oddity--it's evidence, maybe, that something of his mental pattern made its way into his writing, then into my sister, on into her art and finally back to its original source, Hofstadter himself, thus closing the circle. "That is hilarious," he says. "It is really a strange loop...
...with Barbara Stanwyck or Greta Garbo cast as a strong-willed woman censured by a straitlaced society. In the past 20 years, when women have achieved a measure of equality (except at the box office), the hero-victim has tended to be male, and the affliction has been mental, as in Rain Man, Forrest Gump and A Beautiful Mind. They're the movie equivalent of the orphan puppy that no one will adopt--except you, dear sensitive viewer...