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...Pentagon has kept the public "psychically numb" to the dangers of nuclear warfarc, Caldicott, an Australian-born physician, said...
There were a lot of them once--ringing doorbells in small Iowa towns to peddle themselves like some new kind of Fuller Brush; standing knee-deep in New Hampshire snow banks, smiles frozen in place; shaking the hands of factory workers until their fingers went numb; giving speech after speech after speech until their voices cracked; eating creamed chicken until they could take it no more; talking about momentum, strategy, winning and losing--especially losing...
...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...