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Walker, 39, is a psychiatrist. These four, and six other images, began to elicit comments from his patients, often providing him with a catalyst for therapeutic talk, an opening to the patient's preoccupations. Soon Walker began asking whether any of the photographs stirred an emotional response. "People expressed feelings," he says, "and at appropriate moments I could break through initial resistance and get to the heart of their problem." One of Walker's patients, a man in his 30s, complained of chest pains and feared heart attacks, even though cardiologists could find nothing wrong with him. Walker...
...week-to-week price fluctuations for stocks that Harvard owns translate into very large gains and losses--often hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars. But for the people who manage Harvard's $1.7-billion endowment, such ups and downs elicit only the slightest arch of an eyebrow during a perusal of the Sunday stock tables. What matters to them is the long...
...Biko fund was established in order to elicit money from students who rightfully refuse to sanction South Africa's apartheid government. A successful Biko fund would send the administration the message that it can continue to own stock in companies that deal with South Africa as long as the facade of helping, the South African people is maintained...
...individual's potential as well as a reward for academic achievements. Hence, applicants must often demonstrate the ability to interact with others, display mature judgment, or meet other requirements which may be stipulated by a will. To assess these qualities, committees must often choose questions designed to elicit an emotional response. Other questions which seem unreasonable to the applicant, for example ones about a student's medical history, may be fully justified by the committee's past experience...
...press conference was not even about the hostages' welfare, or about their families: it was Daniel Schorr wanting to know the hostages' attitude toward the press. Did Schorr expect a testimonial from them, or would he have been just as happy (since TV interviewers like to elicit on-screen emotion) had someone flared at him? Afterward, NBC's Linda Ellerbee, mad as a wet hen, complained on the air about "the controlled scene," the "sort of official line" she had heard, and the welcome home-type questions-instead of the presumably sharp ones she would have asked...