Word: distressingly
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...only feed it, and love it, but endlessly talk to it, play games with it, show it what is happening in the world. Rutgers' Lewis has tested 100 babies for mental development at three months and recorded their mothers' response to the infants' signs of distress. He was hardly surprised to find that those who had been more warmly cared for had learned more by the time they were retested at the age of one year. This kind of nurturing is essential to both emotional and intellectual growth; indeed, the two are inseparable. "The baby who doesn...
...major emotional distress disorders in Japan are familiar enough: schizophrenia, depression, alcoholism. But the neuroses are often culture-bound, centered on the overwhelming sense of obligation and dependence. Shinkeishitsu (nervous temperament), for example, involves hypersensitivity, perfectionism, social withdrawal or total discomfort in unfamiliar surroundings...
...Rain, The Tale of a Certain Woman). Perhaps the most respected woman currently writing is Taeko Kono, 67. Her novel Revolving Door deals with protagonists whose ordinary lives cloak sadomasochistic and pathological behavior. The Cheeverish approach of Yuko Tsushima, 36 (A Bed of Grass), examines the roots of family distress and false nostalgia. Taeko Tomioka, 47, is a poet turned novelist, celebrated for her unflinching analyses of social despair. For these women, says Anthologist Yukiko Tanaka, "writing is the antithesis of the selfless submission prescribed by Japanese culture. Women writers have needed great courage to surmount the many obstacles...
...like a highly tuned sports car, a Ferrari really." If the common allusions to machines bother Martina, she conceals hurt feelings well these days. Little seems to distress her, including a turmoil of counselors and coaches, who peck at computers as she plays, as though they were operating her by remote control. "The computer has done nothing for my tennis but wonders for my diet," she says happily. "I live not from one match to the next but from one meal to the next. I like to eat." Wimbledon champion and a size eight, she has "never felt so comfortable...
...pneumonia; in Washington, D.C. Gruenther was able to crunch huge amounts of data down to the essentials, earning the nickname "the brain." Recommended for the NATO post by Ike, Gruenther kept Allied forces in such a high state of readiness that some NATO members concluded, to his distress, that they could cut their troops and attend to other commitments...