Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though none of the copycats has yet been caught, the phenomenon is chillingly common enough-in the rash of airplane hijackings, for instance-to give psychologists ideas about what kind of personalities are involved. Says Arthur Schueneman, senior clinical psychologist at the Northwestern University Rehabilitation Institute: "These people are often stirred to excitement by news reports. They may have longstanding impulses, barely contained, that are triggered by these events: anger, thrill seeking, retribution against injustice, real or imagined." Helen Morrison, an authority on mass murder, sums up their motives: "Better to be wanted by the police than...
...NOTION is almost paradoxical. Dapper deans gather in the stately Harvard Faculty Club to discuss students' most pressing and personal problems, the ones that are triggered by stress, and usually explode into severe depression or rash action, turning priorities, sensibilities, objectives inside out. These experiences, when they befall those close to us, prove so deeply personal that the idea of more than 100 college deans coming from all parts to discuss stress and substance abuse and suicide in a formal conference on "Stress-Related Problems Among College Students" strikes a distasteful chord...
...Astronomer G. Edward Danielson, 43, won the cosmic sweepstakes. Using Palomar Observatory's 200-in. telescope, they spotted Halley's comet as a faint moving dot in the constellation Canis Minor. The comet has not been seen since 1911. A year earlier, its fiery appearance caused a rash of doomsday forecasts and end-of-the-world parties...
...University buildings, robbing coin machines found in the basements, says B&G official Norman Goodwin. Most of the entrants, however, are simply curious students. "It would appear that the tunnels remain a continuing challenge to undergraduates," notes Tribble. Break-ins usually come in fits and starts--a small rash of entries followed by six to eight quiet months, he says...
...slaughter on the Rue des Roisiers was but one of the recent rash of terrorist attacks that have plagued France, and most particularly its Jews. With the war raging in Lebanon and the local Jewish community furious at what it perceives to be pro-PLO posturing by the government and the French press disparaging Israel, tempers were running short...