Word: psychic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Journalist Gloria Emerson, who wrote with brilliant indignation about the war, pronounced bitterly a few years ago: "We are a people who drop the past, and then forget where it has been put." But the war in Viet Nam cannot be discarded with impetuous American blitheness. The civic and psychic mechanics don't work that way. The men (and as many as 7,500 women) who served in the war brought back with them pain and problems ? rage and guilt, sorrows and confusions ? that have gone ignored and unattended for years. Now, at last, they seem...
...banging on in his own mind. Robert Moore, 32, spent eight years hiding at home, before he joined a VA-supported outreach center in Queens. There, he and two other veterans work as a team to locate similar cases of radical withdrawal ?men hunkered down in their little psychic tunnels, like Viet Cong staying safe from all that American rolling thunder...
...audience until it has only enough energy to do one thing: turn the page. Sutherland notes that the top ten novels of the '70s sold twice as many copies as the top ten of the 1960s. In this thirsty epoch, more readers than ever seem to need their psychic spirits. -By J.D. Reed
More than 750 students, parents, and alumni sat motionless in the silence of Sanders Theater as Helen M. Caldicott, an instructor in pediatrics at Children's Hospital and president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, described the horrors of nuclear war and the "psychic numbing" politicians and military leaders rely on to portray nuclear armament as necessary and moral...
...mistake to view all Viet Nam veterans as profoundly troubled, as walking wounded. About half of the veterans, the study found, still carry disturbing, unsettling psychic baggage from Viet Nam. Even so, most cope pretty well. Americans may now be too quick to indulge in a "Lo, the Poor Vet" rhetoric. Dr. Arthur Egendorf, a Viet Nam veteran and a psychologist who was a principal author of the study, points out that those who pity Viet Nam veterans simply relegate them to the role of victim (which is not much help to the veterans). Liberals use their pity to help...