Word: faddish
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...knows. But should older woman/younger man relationships leave their faddish status and enter into mainstream respectability, the social impact would be enormous: The institutions of marriage and the family would have to be restructured; standards for both feminine and masculine attractiveness would be broadened; and the pool of available men would remain (theoretically) constant for aging women instead of shrinking, as it does under conventional circumstances...
DEVELOPMNET ECONOMICS is a faddish field. While other practitioners of the dismal science study the herd mentality, development economists practice it. But despite many voices, consensus is hard to come by. The field's single universally accepted truth may well be the assertion that despite 35 years of attention, the problems of the Third World seem as intractable as ever. But in this mercurial field. P. T. Bauer has remained an academic constant...
...Senator John Glenn (52% to 41%). Of course, the voters scrambling to support Hart might leave him tomorrow, or next week in the important Illinois primary. Indeed, most polls showed that his following was not deeply committed. Hart must be concerned that his support is faddish and could collapse...
...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...