Word: burnouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think that most people go through periods of `burnout' or of simply wishing to escape from other people's expectations for a while," says Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70, director of admissions for Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges...
...excited considerable curiosity about its previously unknown author, Frederick Exley, and its central character, a hopeless drunk and a lunatic rooter for the pro football New York Giants also named Frederick Exley. Who was this guy, so the question went at the time, the accomplished author or the alcoholic burnout he portrays...
...degrees." Teachers sometimes feel trapped in the profession because they don't have a degree in anything else. "In the old traditional programs," says Yinger, "we put a lot of teachers out there who already knew they didn't like teaching. I think that accounts for some of the burnout and failure...
During the '70s, when a certain amount of marijuana burnout from the '60s became evident, pot fell into relative disfavor. But in the past decade, media stories registering disapproval of marijuana have tapered off. It has hardly discredited the substance that Head Boomer Bill Clinton, after stating four years ago that he hadn't inhaled, told an MTV audience that he wishes he could have done so. The President's sneaking snickering line (a kid still putting one over on his parents) suggested the boomers' ambivalence about pot and a kind of time-warping refusal to see it or themselves...
...used to dive and Larry Bird and Kevin McHale used to work the back-door play. "Yes!" the amazed onlooker would realize, watching these masters. "That's how it's done!" Madison Smartt Bell's Ten Indians (Pantheon; 272 pages; $23) catches child psychiatrist Mike Devlin just short of burnout, mortally sick from seeing damaged children. He is no longer surprised, for instance, to notice an eight-year-old boy who has come to him with cigarette burns on his body scissoring the crotches from plastic soldiers. Nothing new, but "Devlin realized with a dreary fatigue," the author writes, "that...