Word: jungly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...names, you ask? Let me explain. My birth name is Jung Il Kim, which happens to be the name of one of the most despised men in my native country, South Korea. Jung Il Kim is the son of North Korea's communist dictator, Kim Il-Sung. It is widely known that Jung Il Kim will assume the presidency upon his father's death, establishing the world's first and only Communist dynasty...
...president, Jung Il Kim is viewed by most Koreans as pampered and spoiled. Unlike most spoiled children, however, he has tangible power in North Korea and has used it to repress basic freedoms and violate civil rights. Most Koreans resent him and his imminent ascension to the presidency...
...there are any other Jay Kims or Jung Il Kims or even Jung Kims out there, I beg you, please, to look with pity upon my travails and keep a low profile. If you can't do anything right, then please, please, just don't do anything wrong...
...live with the constant fear of seeing my name on the front page of newspapers trumpeting another misdemeanor of some faraway Jay Kim or Jung Il Kim and having to listen to the same old jokes. In the meantime, I am a man in search of a name. What should I do? Should I pick up another alias? If you think of any scandal-proof, easy-to-remember appellations, drop me a line...
...example, the 10-year collaboration between Freud and Carl Gustav Jung broke off abruptly in 1914, with profound consequences for the discipline they helped create. There would henceforth be Freudians and Jungians, connected chiefly by mutual animosities. Why did a warm, fruitful cooperation end in an icy schism? In A Most Dangerous Method (Knopf; $30), John Kerr, a clinical psychologist who has seen new diaries, letters and journals, argues that the growing philosophical disputes between Freud and Jung were exacerbated by a cat-and-mouse game of sexual suspicion and blackmail. Freud believed an ex-patient of Jung's named...