Word: prone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Parental Problem. But why, Bahnson wondered, would tragedy and loss render only some people cancer-prone when almost every human being experiences them during a lifetime...
Apparently most prone to cancer, said Conference Chairman Claus B. Bahnson, professor of psychiatry at Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College, are persons who deny and repress their emotions after experiencing personal loss or tragedy. Rather than expressing grief normally through mourning, such people, he said, channel their emotional response internally through the nervous system. This in turn upsets the body's hormonal balance. It may also affect immunological processes. Both of these mechanisms may play a significant role in controlling and combatting the rogue cell growth of cancer...
Later in life this self-imposed lack of emotional outlets made them more vulnerable to tragedy and, therefore, more cancer-prone than the average person...
...easy and valid to argue that many dissenters ignore history; that if they only understood how much conditions have improved since the Great Depression, they would be less dyspeptic today; that if they could feel the reality of the cold war of a decade ago, they would be less prone to pacifism; that if they would acknowledge the rule of law's value in nurturing progress, they might be less hostile to traditional forms; that anarchy can be a harsher master than authority...
...many studies of student activists show that the great majority of them come from families that are prosperous, politically active and liberal. Almost half of the protest-prone students are Jewish; few are Catholic. The most active students cluster in schools that have a tradition of dissent and a tolerance for it-universities such as California, Wisconsin, Columbia. Most of the activists are students of the arts and humanities; they are apt to be bright but dreamy, and not yet committed to careers. Few are in the professional schools-business, engineering or medicine. Since many universities no longer demand compulsory...