Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...While depression is indeed brought about, as Dr. Randolph Caitlin says, by a current loss (of love, relationship, a crucial ideal, a cherished self-image), the converse is not true: Loss does not usually cause clinical depression, but ordinary adaptive grief and sadness. The most comprehensive epidemiological study of depression (G. Brown and T. Harris, Social Origins of Depression, 1978) shows that 90 percent of depressions in women were caused by loss, but only 20 percent of women who experienced loss developed depression. Why? Past experience makes some people vulnerable to depression as a result of loss, while most people...
...commit to an ideal is a dangerous and wonderful thing. Dangerous, because one might spend all of one's life pursuing but never finding it; wonderful, because the mere promise of the ideal gives the wishful the knowledge of beauty...
...took a picture of this scene, and that photograph is my vision of the Cape. The entire day of searching was worth my photograph. I had found an ideal...
Barzun said his ideal reconstruction of the Core would challenge its current philosophy. But he added that "given the bureaucratic nightmare that is Harvard, we'll seek more minor reform...
...ideal tenant," Demong says, "is locallyaimed, locally based, maybe with three or fourstores in the Boston area. I think [localmanagement is] important for the success of theretailer or the tenant...