Word: psyching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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James M. Jones, assistant professor of Psychology and Social Relations and teacher of Psych and Soc Rel 1860, "Sport, Play and Society": "I see Kentucky and UCLA in the finals, and I have a feeling that Kentucky will go all the way, though I prefer UCLA. Mainly because my respect for Wooden. But I'm very, very impressed with the enthusiasm and court pressure Kentucky combines. Do I wish we had big-time college basketball around here? Sure, it's unfortunate that we don't. It's healthy to get excited about the performance, the skill involved, the competition...
Joan (Ann Reinking) comes on like a female Vince Lombardi who feels she can psych Charley into a zest for winning. She sings pep talks at him like To Make the Boy a Man and I Am Going to Love (the Man You're Going to Be). But somehow he never seems to become quite the man that she is. She dominates the action, partly because playgoers cannot really forget Shaw's Saint Joan, though nothing, unfortunately, has been borrowed from G.B.S...
...changed the entire strategy of the mile. "We have to get up and go from the start now," says New Zealander Rod Dixon, who placed third in the 1,500 meters in Munich. Says Bayi modestly: "It's just my style. I'm not trying to psych anyone." Except himself. Last year, when he tried running with the pack, he was so rattled by the traffic that he fell and was spiked. Now he looks at the scar and says: "I am training only as a front runner...
Even Cohen admits that there is a limit to what he can accomplish. "You don't want your psych professor sounding like Henny Youngman," he says. "That would be too jarring...
...maximum effectiveness, the psych requires a jugular instinct for a rival's weakness-his most intimate ambition, an insubstantial boast or a small, fresh scar-and a sure knowledge that except on certain social or sporting occasions, the only boy on the home team is yourself. Jack Nicholson has been rattling and roughing up the competition since he started acting out in Hollywood in the late '50s-at first with very little luck. Then came a gradual success that right now is soaring...