Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week many Israeli doctors were convinced that whatever the original "environmental irritant" might have been, the West Bank ailment had become what some described as a "mass phenomenon." A Palestinian health official agreed, concluding that while the first 20% of the cases were probably caused by the inhalation of some kind of gas, the remaining 80% were basically psychosomatic. As Director-General Modan put it, "We don't want to call it hysteria for fear we will create hysteria." A more fundamental problem is that even if the epidemic really was a case of mass hysteria, few Palestinian...
...fearful for the same reason that the patient is." Arthur Barsky, a psychiatrist at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, believes Ford's views are difficult to substantiate. Says he: "The way you treat somebody has a lot to do with the way you think about yourself. That phenomenon is there. Beyond that, it's inference...
With holocaust literature continually flooding the market and literally forming a genre of its own, great attention has been paid to the phenomenon of survivor's guilt. Elie Weisel gave the issue moving treatment in his widely acclaimed novel Night, and most recently, William Styron examined the trauma of a mother forced to determine the fate of her children in Sophie's Choice. It should come as no surprise therefore that as a Jewish initiate into the world of fiction, Sheila Levin attempts to join the ranks of the guilt-ridden with her first novel, Simple Truths...
...DIDN'T KNOW Mozart was a person: I thought it was just another name for music," the six-year-old girl who made this remark summed up the phenomenon of Mozart better then all the superlatives that have been used to elevate the man's achievement. The business of finding Mozart "the person"--looking for the musician behind the music, making sense out of the limited store of facts and rumors--has occupied countless biographers over the years. And it is undoubtedly a formidable task to get the measure of a man whom Wolfgang Hildesheimer, the latest to make...
...lived in it as a stranger, a condition neither he nor his circle could encompass; who grew ever more deeply estranged, never suspecting it himself until the end of his life, and making light of it until the very end--our imagination cannot accommodate such a phenomenon...