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...blunting mental trauma is counseling. Survivors need to be assured that their reactions are normal and expected. Talking to family and friends is encouraged, but often it is not enough. Says Susan Solomon, coordinator of the National Institute of Mental Health's emergency and disaster research program: "The thing that makes disasters particularly damaging is that the people you normally turn to for help are also victims." Many Alaskans affected by the Exxon Valdez oil spill last March are finding professional help useful. In the three months after the accident, the number of people seeking assistance at the Valdez Counseling...
...popular image of the orchestra conductor is that of a grand seigneur: imperious, authoritarian and, more often than not, old. Concert music, goes the conventional wisdom, is something so emotionally and spiritually complex that no one who has not reached at least his 60th year can possibly plumb its depths. What Beethoven, who died at 56, Mozart, who died at 35, or Schubert, who died at 31, would have thought of this manifestly ridiculous proposition hardly needs asking...
...relationship between Roosevelt and Marshall was not always easy, as this stylishly written book makes clear. To find out what schemes the sometimes impetuous President was cooking up with Winston Churchill, Marshall often had to ask Britain's chief military representative in Washington. He would then protest loudly, putting out a restraining hand that benefited both the President and the country. In his own way each man was a genius without whom the war would have been even longer and more terrible...
Most journalists occasionally encounter what might be called the Insider's Lament. Anywhere non-newsies can corner them, someone carps along this line: "Dammit, on subjects I'm personally involved in, you guys often get it wrong." The critic usually adds that if he had been consulted, all would have been right. How a journalist responds to this generic complaint depends partly on his tact and hubris quotients. Insiders with their own strong views, after all, tend to cavil about competing ideas and stories they consider less than comprehensive. But when I run into the I.L. these days, I find...
...fact, the Monthly often scolds the rest of journalism about unsound practices, with access being a particular bugaboo. It dutifully acknowledged the errors two months later -- after others had repeated them. Editor Charles Peters now says his writers usually do check with people they criticize. "The time you don't do it," he adds, "is when everyone knows what the other guy would say. Even then, it should be done...