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This is the third year of his tenure at A.B.T, which is currently playing an ambitious eleven-week season at New York City's Metropolitan Opera House. His initial goal was to create a strong, youthful corps de ballet and to lessen A.B.T.'s chronic reliance on international stars. The corps now is an impeccably disciplined instrument, but the members are so fresh in their almost votive commitment that their precision never suggests a drill team. At the start of his first season, Baryshnikov also picked out a few youthful dancers and virtually pushed them out onstage...
...battle over the last two years with an illness that caused severe headaches, and later, depression. A series of doctors have failed to identify the ailment, but they eventually traced it to chemical fumes he was exposed to during a summer factory job he held after sophomore year. The chronic pain never subsided until this spring, despite various treatments, and pushed Elliott into a state of clinical depression. "The pain was bad," he recalls without visible emotion, "but your mental state gets so dark that everything that had looked good is gray, and everything that had been bad is pure...
Medical interest in the phenomenon began on the battlefield, where the devastating effects of chronic stress are unmistakable. During the Civil War, for example, palpitations were so commonplace that they became known as "soldier's heart." During World War I, the crippling anxiety called shell shock was at first attributed to the vibrations from heavy artillery, which was believed to damage blood vessels in the brain. This theory was abandoned by the time World War II came along, and the problem was renamed battle fatigue. By then the great Harvard physiologist Walter Cannon, along with Selye, had proved that...
...single event can cause smaller changes that touch every aspect of existence. Divorce, for example, "is not an isolated event," observes U.C.S.F. Psychiatrist Leonard Pearlin. "It is accompanied by some social isolation, a reduction in income and sometimes the problems of being a single parent. These become the chronic strains of life...
Perhaps the most significant new discovery about stress is its deleterious effect on the immune system. Researchers have discovered that the body's production of its own cancer-fighting cells, including natural killer cells, T-lymphocytes and macrophages, is inhibited by chronic stress...