Word: loss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were definitely disappointed with the loss against Fresno St.," Broughton said, "but we are still happy with what we accomplished. We improved so much over the season...
When the lord of the underworld snatched away her beloved daughter, Demeter was inconsolable. She wandered the world and in her misery allowed the fields to lie barren. In modern parlance, she was "in trauma." Today the Greek goddess of agriculture might have talked about her loss, vented her frustration and worked through her grief. Certainly, she would not have been left alone with her sorrow...
...Slow Food member Jonathan White of Peekskill, N.Y., one of the country's last artisanal cheesemakers, the loss of this heritage has broad implications: "A generation of children thinks dinner comes out of the freezer and goes in the microwave. They don't smell it until they sit at the table. Physiologically, that's a major change in our culture...
...Gray is right, she'll be ready. But in the meantime, plenty of other women are banking on a different outcome, one in which a business degree is just an optional detour on the road to success. And in which the B school's loss is the new economy's gain...
Schlant boldly puts a society's literature on the couch, but her underlying meaning is also strong: only individuals are capable of feeling grief and the release that comes with mourning the loss of innocence. Change, therefore, must come one good book and one generous gesture at a time...