Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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State of Emergency? Nonsense. Just ask the students playing frisbee in staggering winds at the Quad, or the daredevils in front of Kirkland lofting footballs skyward as tree limbs crashed to ground nearby. In Adams House, residents feted Gloria with wine, cheese and Beethoven in the lower common room. And down by the Charles, Gloria's admirers were practicing the backstroke. No one dares dive into the tubercular river muck even on sunny days. But during a hurricane...
Everyone knows that a good deal of psychotherapy does not seem to go well. What everyone does not know, says Psychoanalyst Robert Langs, is that a common factor in failed therapies is the "madness" of the therapists. Skewed treatments, he writes in a new book titled Madness and Cure (Newconcept Press; $36), can bring some measure of relief to the disturbed and often seem to effect a cure, but they can also end in "incalculable harm" to patients...
...unconscious level, often tend to be aware of the erratic behavior of those who are treating them. "Mostly what happens is that patients perceive the madness of their therapists and try to correct it," Langs says. "Unconscious attempts by patients to cure the errant therapist are quite common...
...most common nickname in all Division I is the Tigers, followed closely by the Wildcats and the Bulldogs (I always knew those guys at Yale were unoriginal...
...want to see what's happened recently, we look at the newspapers that cover the floor. If I see a book for a course that I'm taking Iying on the common room floor, I just take it and go to class. If my roommates weren't this way too I'd be in hell...