Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other presentation at the exercises in Sanders Theater yesterday, poetess Anne Sexton read "18 Days Without You" to symbolize he grief at the death of Robert Kennedy...
...words "We'll miss you Bobby" scratched upon it. In Menuchen, an elderly Negre fell on his knees touching the ground with his forehead and stretched out his arms, hat in hand, toward the train. Everywhere, men and women pressed their fists to their mouths, their faces hard with grief...
Apparently most prone to cancer, said Conference Chairman Claus B. Bahnson, professor of psychiatry at Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College, are persons who deny and repress their emotions after experiencing personal loss or tragedy. Rather than expressing grief normally through mourning, such people, he said, channel their emotional response internally through the nervous system. This in turn upsets the body's hormonal balance. It may also affect immunological processes. Both of these mechanisms may play a significant role in controlling and combatting the rogue cell growth of cancer...
Other studies cited during the conference support the theory. Research by Dr. William A. Greene at the University of Rochester has shown that a high percentage of cancer patients suffered feelings of extreme helplessness and hopelessness rather than cathartic grief prior to the onset of their illness...
LEADERS must know what their people are thinking. If France's Charles de Gaulle or Columbia's Grayson Kirk had followed that simple rule, they might have saved themselves a lot of grief. Therein lies the chief justification for opinion polls. Yet there is also something vaguely troubling about the polls, those incessant readings of the U.S. voter's psyche...