Word: numb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shocks; days after finishing five years in prison, he resumes dangerous underground activities; to embarrass the government, he begs the jury hearing his case to punish him with a death sentence. In his moral perfection, Alekos transcends us all, just as he transcends his biographer, leaving the reader humiliated, numb, outside...
University Health Services also provides counseling as long as the victim wants it, Nadja B. Gould, a psychiatric social worker, is on call 24 hours a day to give immediate, confidential counseling. Rape victims, Gould says, often tell her they feel numb, off-balanced and slightly paralyzed. "One use of counseling is to get people back to using their coping mechanisms and regaining their sense of self-esteem. How that happens is different with each woman," Gould says...
University Health Services also provides counseling as long as the victim wants it, Nadja B. Gould, a psychiatric social worker, is on call 24 hours a day to give immediate, confidential counseling. Rape victims, Gould says, often tell her they feel numb, off-balanced and slightly paralyzed. "One use of counseling is to get people back to using their coping mechanisms and regaining their sense of self-esteem. How that happens is different with each woman," Gould says...
University Health Services also provides counseling as long as the victim wants it, Nadja B. Gould, a psychiatric social worker, is on call 24 hours a day to give immediate, confidential counseling. Rape victims, Gould says, often tell her they feel numb, off-balanced and slightly paralyzed. "One use of counseling is to get people back to using their coping mechanisms and regaining their sense of self-esteem. How that happens is different with each woman," Gould says...
What does this all mean? Well, it means there are people here waiting for you, waiting with a passion--for what is not exactly clear. Now is the time to get paranoid, so that when you get here, you are so numb from paranoia that you can be yourself. Have some jokes prepared--popular ones this year are likely to be, "Hey, did you hear Julius Caesar's in our class?" or, "Hey, I just saw a piece of graffiti saying `Napoleon Bonaparte '84.'" Don't bother memorizing your SAT score; just tell anyone rude enough to ask that...