Word: neutrality
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With the Crimson forwards applying heavy pressure as Princeton attempted to clear the puck into neutral ice, Mandes forced Tigers starting netminder B. J. Slapsky to lunge to his right with a well-struck wrist shot. Maki, parked at the right post, gathered the rebound, then arced towards the faceoff circle. As the defense gravitated towards the puck, Du quietly slipped in behind at the far post, where Maki found him for a can’t-miss tap-in at 18:25, extending the Harvard lead to three...
...added, responding to a question regarding Colgate’s penalty kill. “Every team plays, pretty much, a similar [penalty kill] in the neutral zone and in the [defensive] zone, so it was definitely us. It really didn’t have that much to do with them...
...local murder trial. Hard to find anything less personal than that, yet it is precisely this kind of impersonal recounting of some irrelevant bit of news that is often resorted to by distraught lovers who are contending with some strain and who thus choose to recount details from a neutral territory as they wait out a storm that swirls about them." Absent anything more incriminating, however, such as accounts by someone who saw the two having sex or expressions of carnal desire from Lincoln or Speed, it's hard to view the letter as anything other than a description...
...that they see the world--or at least faces--differently. Italian researchers recruited 49 shy third- and fourth-graders and asked them to identify emotion in the facial expressions of other children in a video-game format. The shyest kids had difficulty identifying expressions that were either hostile or neutral. Joy, on the other hand, was almost never misread...
...most of its history, psychology had concerned itself with all that ails the human mind: anxiety, depression, neurosis, obsessions, paranoia, delusions. The goal of practitioners was to bring patients from a negative, ailing state to a neutral normal, or, as University of Pennsylvania psychologist Martin Seligman puts it, "from a minus five to a zero." It was Seligman who had summoned the others to Akumal that New Year's Day in 1998--his first day as president of the American Psychological Association (A.P.A.)--to share a vision of a new goal for psychology. "I realized that my profession was half...