Word: claustrophobia
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Inside, as in Greeley's other easily expandable new elementary schools, walls move to allow team teaching, small or large classes, special groupings within the classroom. The absence of windows prevents glare and helps preserve constant temperatures, and no one has yet complained of claustrophobia. Kathryn Moss, a teacher for 24 years, is enthusiastic. "I have the children to myself without window distractions," she says. "I'm convinced I'm going to teach better here because I can do so much more...
...they had no need to suffer claustrophobia. As soon as they were zipped in, the plastic envelope was inflated with double-filtered air, delivered under pressure. The envelope is transparent; they could see all around, and they could talk through it without raising their voices...
Checkpoint reeks of authenticity. Some of it is just that of a competent journalist rendering the sights and sounds of Berlin today-the nightmarish rumble of U.S. tanks massing at dawn along the border, the frustrated rage of West Berlin student rioters, the strange claustrophobia of the beleaguered city, which extends even to the press of boats cluttering the Wannsee of a Sunday afternoon. More rare is Diplomatic Insider Thayer's ability to convey with tape-recorder fidelity imaginary encounters between U.S. diplomats and the Russians in the kind of baleful restricted bargaining that still sometimes takes place...
Relief on Sunday. The worst quality of broadcast news, people reported, was that it talked too much without saying enough new. "I'm getting claustrophobia or a tin ear or something," said one respondent. "If they do mention something I'm interested in, it slides right by me." "The same thing over and over," was the frequent complaint. In contrast, the newspaper reader can follow the path of his own interests, guided but not compelled by headlines and layout...
...there is another kind of Christmas trauma that results in what might be called Santa Claustrophobia. Many a mop pet chickens out of the department store line to see Santa-the big red man with the vast white beard seems like God him self and not every adult would be in a hurry to climb onto His lap. One Victoria, B.C., housewife organized a protest when a store had Santa Claus arriving in a helicopter, only to be followed three days later by a rival store's Santa landing by parachute. Confused her children hopelessly she said, and made...