Word: faddish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lived through what is sometimes called a near death experience (NDE), a vivid, memorable sense of sights, sounds and events that occur while an individual is clinically dead or very close to the point of no return. Discussion of this phenomenon and other aspects of dying achieved an almost faddish popularity in the early and mid-1970s, following the publication of two bestsellers: On Death and Dying, a study of terminally ill patients, by Psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and Life After Life, by Psychiatrist Raymond Moody...
...biggest difficulties with the concept of burnout is that it has become faddish and indiscriminate, an item of psychobabble, the psychic equivalent, in its ubiquitousness, of jogging. Burnout has no formal psychiatric status. Many psychoanalysts regard the malady as simply that old familiar ache, depression. Even so, plenty of professionals take burnout seriously. Psychological journals are heavy with analyses of burnout...
...still think it wasn't that far off if we had done it correctly." Sid Gardner, a liberal Republican who coordinated Anderson's efforts in Connecticut, learned his lesson: "If you are serious about winning the presidency, you start early and you start serious. It is not faddish, it is not chic, and it is not just reaction to whoever the two parties' nominees...
...universal modern cures for the ancient pain of learning, easy ways to raise test scores and at the same time prepare the "whole child" for his role in society. Education has become a tormented field where armies of theorists clash, frequently using language that is unintelligible to the layman. Faddish theories sweep through the profession, changing standards, techniques, procedures. Often these changes dislocate students and teachers to little purpose. The New Math is an instructive example. Introduced in the early '60s without adequate tryout, and poorly understood by teachers and parents, the New Math eventually was used in more...