Word: burnout
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Your article "Surviving the Super Bowl" [Jan. 24] is a sobering comment on life in America, where the term burnout is now more widely used than the word success. By insisting on winning in competitive sports, we have encouraged self-destructive behavior...
...knew about pressure before they got to their Super Bowls, but learned about futility there. Walking away from his $250,000 job last week, Vermeil, 46, expressed something of the toll that accrues from 24 years of X's and O's, using that corporate phrase "emotional burnout." But Walsh's portrait of himself after the 49ers' 41-37 loss to the San Diego Chargers Dec. 11 is more achingly descriptive. "I was totally drained," he says, "physically, mentally and emotionally. It took everything I had. There was nothing left of me. I knelt down...
...Pentagon speaks of the power curve, meaning the direction in which things are tending. Employees at McDonald's describe their specialized burnout as being burgered-out. Homosexuals possess a decadently rich special vocabulary that is on the whole inaccessible to breeders (heterosexuals...
Sullivan added he was concerned about "burnout" in the staff...
...writers were being encouraged, often paid substantial wages, to do everything but write. Updike lived through and withstood such pressures on his private labors. He withstood, too, the more chronic depredations on an American writer's productivity: drink, the extremes of isolation or cliquishness, and, above all, early burnout. All too often, as Updike once noted in a speech at an Australian arts festival, a writer uses up his youthful material and finds himself, though empty, still posed in his role. "It is then that he dies as a writer and becomes an intercultural object merely," said Updike...