Word: emotionalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ILLEGAL EMOTION--Formerly known as illegal motion, this penalty can be invoked by the referee, at his discretion, when any player on the field shows the slightest signs of becoming excited or frustrated. Smiles will not be tolerated. Penalty is five yards.
Sound simple enough? Wolpe is not always so sure. "For many years I firmly resisted the idea of writing a popularly comprehensive book," Wolpe writes, "for I felt myself firmly committed to scientific work." However, having at long last decided to produce the definitive work of poppsychology, the author goes...
Everyone struggles with the barrage of data that is modern life. Memory no longer seems able to file everything that the senses receive: "Sometimes the things Nikki saw on TV scared her, but a moment later she would forget about them." A new disease has begun to spread: Information Sickness...
Although no one spells it out, this "new emotion" sounds like the tactile knowledge of what being alive now, thanks to science and space probes, means: sitting on a crowded planet that is moving very fast. In such a situation, Mooney's narrative suggests, everything that happens matters to...
Under a sparkling sky in Washington, trumpets blared, drummers in red tunics beat a tattoo, and honor guards from the U.S. armed forces paraded smartly in salute to yet another visiting head of government. Amid the now familiar splendor of pageantry on the White House South Lawn, both the guest...