Word: mentality
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From there, his search takes him to more and more unlikely settings. Although the progression from his home to his school is an obvious one, the mentor he selects there—Pappass (Robin Williams), the mentally-challenged school janitor—certainly is not. Nonetheless, Pappass gives Tommy everything his mom does not; he is happy to listen to Tommy’s rambling thoughts and his mental deficiency allows him to relate to a 13-year...
Surely this is only the beginning. I sure hope mental health is next on the agenda—we can cure Oscar’s depression and get to dealing with Bert’s Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. And the Count, clearly, is desperately in need of a psychological evaluation...
...definitely a hard loss,” co-captain Kelly Noon said. “A lot of it’s mental preparation. We got down a lot of goals early in the beginning. We can’t get down 7 goals—it’s too big a hole to climb...
Randall Jarrell never received the attention given his flamboyantly talented and troubled friends. Robert Lowell's struggles with manic-depression and mental institutions found their way into his later, confessional poetry. John Berryman's alcoholism was legendary while he lived, and his suicide made headlines. In contrast, Jarrell refused to exercise his poetic licenses. He did not drink or philander; his first marriage ended in an amicable divorce after twelve years, and his second lasted until his death...
...sixth sense of machinery that Yeager calls his "knowledgeable feel," his love of engines and valves "and all those mechanical gadgets that make most people yawn." Time and again this supersonic Zen led to discovery of critical data: a bolt installed upside down that caused several fatal crashes, a mental flash of a mispositioned stabilizer that saved his life...