Word: frequented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jessica Osterheld practiced psychiatry at UHS for two and a half years, and personally saw three to six cases of anorexia a year. She sees the roots of the disease as being in the anorexic's battle for autonomy over her friends and parents. The disease is far more frequent in women than men, Osterheld says, because "our culture encourages anti-authoritarian behavior in males; there are other avenues where the male's autonomy can be fought...
...Beirut for years waxed rich, chic and sleek-the region's undisputed center of international business. Lebanon's bloody civil war has changed all that. Once-bustling streets in the capital are choked with rubble. Hotels are gutted, eleven banks have been looted and even during the frequent "truces"-24 so far-the killing continues. Beirut, mourns one American businessman, is like "Dodge City with no Wyatt Earp in sight: 3 million people and 8.5 million submachine guns...
Crowded together, such formulations make this book difficult, while their frequent repetition--as though Bercovitch were afraid his ideas might be lost under the flood of his verbiage--makes it sometimes tedious, despite the originality of its thesis...
...like a madman, and said he possessed a "second-rate mind." He also thought Nixon was antiSemitic. Kissinger, explains the book, "saw in the President an antagonistic, gut reaction which stereotyped Jews and convinced Nixon that they were his enemies." One sign of that attitude was Nixon's frequent protest, "The Jewish cabal...
Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-born author (The Painted Bird, Steps, Cockpit) and a frequent guest on Johnny Carson's Tonight show, detects a basic paradox for the novelist and television. "Bear in mind," he says, "that in this country people watch the conversation." To David Halberstam (The Best and the Brightest), spreading the word is like being a political candidate. Says he: "I call it the Nixonization of self. You turn yourself into a human cassette." There is also the nearly hopeless task of trying to explain an idea or complex subject without commercial interruption. South Viet...