"We took the fermentation step out of baking," says Whitley. "Because a certain kind of profiteering mentality regarded time as money, they cut as much time out as possible".
As Wayne Koestenbaum argues in his elegiac 1993 book, "The Queen's Throat," the opera queen became a signifier of a pre-Stonewall mentality — a time of "displaced eroticism," when gay men and lesbians had to express themselves in florid codes.
Regardless, the hardest part is moving beyond the experience and rebuilding your ego so you can walk into your next job and not feel like you have a kick-me sign on your back or a deer-in-the-headlights mentality every time you get an e-mail from your new boss.
In the era of Color's pre-launch $41 million and in light of Demand Media's recent IPO (with favorable earnings released today) we often forget that not that long ago the collective startup mindset was one of a "bomb shelter mentality" … Times, they do change.
The all-work, all-the-time mentality has taken root, not coincidentally, at a time when unions seem as relevant as the old mills in Paterson's Great Falls district.
"That was the mentality at the time".
The servant-master mentality never had time to enter our genes, as it has elsewhere.
"And that plays into the slot-machine mentality, where every time you kill something you're pulling that handle.
True to his "one convert at a time" mentality, he was not afraid to do a little laying on of hands.
The effects of a public herd mentality at the time of the 1929 stock market crash are depicted, all too recognizably, as unstoppable.
