Word: psychics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, the West was seized with a near mass hysteria about imminent nuclear apocalypse. The airwaves, the bookstores, the Congress were filled with dire warnings about our headlong dash to the abyss. Indeed, those who refused to lose their heads were said to suffer from a psychological disorder. "Psychic numbing," it was called...
...provocative observations on a broad range of racially loaded topics that have delighted and irritated people on both sides of the color line. West flays liberals and conservatives for trying to force blacks "to do all the 'cultural' and 'moral' work necessary for healthy race relations" while ignoring the psychic pain that racism has inflicted on the urban poor. He accuses the black middle class that has sprung up since the civil rights movement of the '60s of being "decadent" and "deficient." One consequence of its grasping materialism, he charges, is that "there has not been a time...
...alone," explains a man who says he was fondled by his geometry tutor. Others began revealing sinister memories of homosexual rape and coercive relationships. Weeks later, the Journal broke the first story on St. Lawrence. Like victims elsewhere, the St. Lawrence graduates have organized Project Samuel to share their psychic pain and to lobby for a cleanup. In April, Isely founded a therapy center specializing in clergy victims, at Rogers Memorial Hospital in Oconomowoc...
...however, were fair game. It was common practice for innocent minors to be "bound out," or indentured, to hardscrabble farmers, often by their own parents. They were deprived of hope, happiness and the dreams of childhood until they died, escaped or earned their freedom at 21. For many, the psychic scars of servitude lasted till the grave...
Ability to pay for talent is a surprisingly difficult issue to analyze because the balance sheets of individual teams are as closely guarded as the intricacies of the CIA budget. Moreover, the ego rewards of owning a winning ball team dwarf the psychic payoffs from traditional business. Henry Aaron -- not the slugger but the Brookings Institution economist -- recently chaired a joint labor-management study commission that examined the finances of baseball. But even Aaron is uncertain whether teams are actually losing the money they claim. "I would like to know who owns the law firm that does the work...