Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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John Rosen, a psychiatrist from Philadelphia, did not beat around the bush when he treated his patients. Looking into their eyes, he told neurotic patients they were "crazy," accused schizophrenics of "lying," and threatened to "kill" any patient who acted "abnormal." His methodology was drastic, brutal and, surprisingly, well admired by his peers. He was awarded a faculty position at Temple University Medical School and the Man of the Year award from the American Academy of Psychotherapy. From the 1950s to the late 1970s, Rosen was psychiatry's Superman; he soared to the peak of his profession with the claim...
...situation in Kosovo is admittedly complex. The struggle of the Albanian rebels against the governing Serb regime raises difficult questions about claims to self-determination and the integrity of nation-states. But one thing is clear: the brutal nature of the Serb crackdown under the leadership of President Slobodan Milosevic ought to be recorded as one more count on Milosevic's already existing war crime indictment...
...past decade Winfrey's obsession has been to share such feelings with all of America--to recast the discussion of slavery, presenting it not merely as a brutal, exploitative era in our history but as a kind of roll call of individual tragedy in which, as chattel, "you died with no salvation and no honor in your spirit." She argues that painting slavery with a broad brush in literature, film and even political debate has kept us from knowing the real horror and heroism of the institution. "We got it all wrong," she says. "For years we've talked about...
Beloved will wreak much mischief as she befriends the three living residents of this haunted house, sparking jealousy, infidelity and finally scandal among the good ladies of the emerging black middle class. In Sethe, who believes her to be her dead child revived, Beloved cues the brutal hierarchy of a mother's love...
...hostile takeover in 1985. But since then, on the evidence of a passionate new book by activist Doug Thron, a photographer and lecturer, and reporter Joan Dunning, accelerated logging has devastated the land and the streams that flow through it. From the Redwood Forest (Chelsea Green; $24.95) relates a brutal progression. Pacific Lumber, under Maxxam and Hurwitz, started widespread clear-cutting, a practice that leaves no tree standing and works against natural regrowth. Then Pacific Lumber began cutting through the winter months, and on dangerously steep slopes, giving the impacted ground and the silted streams no respite...