Word: fretfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...title refers to the month when, in Ressner's flippant vision, all the analysts go on vacation, leaving their patients to fret or go crazy. The story is a cycle of summer deaths and September rebirths of the therapeutic relationship. August is also a kind of wish fulfillment for patients who want to be the only person in the doctor's life yet long to find out where the analyst goes when the 50-minute hour is over...
...those movie junkies whose budgets cannot afford to attend the inflated prices in Boston and Cambridge, do not fret--the Summer School will offer different second and third-run movie for reasonable prices each weekend. But also you have to bring your own popcorn...
...course, a game of skill, but not many people understand the nature of this skill, and fewer have seen it in action at the level of world-class play. High-stakes poker is secretive; it is illegal in most places, and embarrassing both to losers, whose associates tend to fret, and to winners, who dread the taxman. Thus the English writer and poker player A. Alvarez (author of another examination of self-destruction, The Savage God: A Study of Suicide) was beguiled when he heard that there was one card room in the world where an observer could watch...
While some Ivy coaches and athletic directors fret, other university officials express confidence similar to Fox's, believing that the rule will not affect the league as originally feared. Says Yale University Athletic Director Frank B. Ryan: "In no way will the NCAA ruiing affect Yale. Our alumni recruit not just athletes, but students who are athletes, and that's perfectly compatible by NCAA standards...
Does this situation preclude intellectual or artistic curiosity? Of course not. One of my most refreshing discoveries here--one not quantifiable with survey data--has been the huge number of people who occasionally fret about GPAs and job applications but who would much rather discuss their hobbies of studying Eastern philosophy, writing short stories, or playing a mean bass guitar. I also remain deeply respectful of those who single-mindedly struggle toward true expertise in biology, computer science or Chinese. Deserving encouragement, not scorn, for their concentrated labors, these are the people most likely to make the concrete changes...