Word: hearths
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Women appear to take it harder than men. The overwhelming majority of the participants in postquake counseling sessions -- sometimes all of the participants -- are women. One hypothesis is that the female nesting instinct is especially offended by a quake's threat to home and hearth. More manifestly, women are more demonstrative and vocal about their anxieties. Men, who may be just as nervous, are culturally conditioned to hide it. "Fearfulness knows no gender," says Gellert. Experts disagree about the probable duration of the stress. Gellert points to a classic formulation in mass psychology known as the "six-week model...
...HOME AND HEARTH...
...Rockies, perhaps too rosily, are increasingly being regarded as the new American heartland. They hold out a promise not just of scenery and jobs but also, most important, of old, back-country values and certainties -- like home, hearth and family -- that have seemingly gone astray in many urban centers. California never offered those. California offered liberation and excitement. "We just decided that Pocatello, with its low crime and good schools, was the place we wanted to raise a child," says Peter Angstadt, 38, a transplant from Fremont, California. He moved in 1987, and in 1989 became mayor of the Idaho...
Most American playwrights seem obsessed with the hearth and its heartaches, but Lee Blessing takes on big political questions, finding the human dimension without stinting the abstraction. Since his 1987 breakthrough work, A Walk in the Woods, about nuclear arms control, he has tackled Beirut hostage taking (Two Rooms), the Gulf War (Fortinbras), Central American insurrection (Lake Street Extension), racism in sport (Cobb), crime and the media (Down the Road) and now AIDS. His appetite for moral complexity has never been more challenged, and his capacity to avoid settling for mere indignation has never been more welcome, than in Patient...
...Weird Sisters were the sous-chefs of Destiny. If a woman's place is at the stove, then it is there she spent millenniums perfecting her potions. She let her power simmer over a low flame; then she served up the concoction, a work of art from the hearth, to charm those who would love her and poison those who would enslave...