Word: realm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Anywhere from 60% to 90% of visits to doctors are in the mind-body, stress-related realm," asserts Dr. Herbert Benson, president of the Mind/Body Medical Institute of Boston's Deaconess Hospital and Harvard Medical School. It is a triumph of medicine that so many of us live long enough to develop these chronic woes, but, notes Benson, "traditional modes of therapy--pharmaceutical and surgical--don't work well against them...
...latest book, Timeless Healing (Scribner; $24), Benson moves beyond the purely pragmatic use of meditation into the realm of spirituality. He ventures to say humans are actually engineered for religious faith. Benson bases this contention on his work with a subgroup of patients who report that they sense a closeness to God while meditating. In a five-year study of patients using meditation to battle chronic illnesses, Benson found that those who claim to feel the intimate presence of a higher power had better health and more rapid recoveries...
...bound to the so-called meritocracy which has nurtured us, which has fostered our present selves, upon which our self-esteem has come, in part, to rely. Yet we are disenchanted by the limitations of the present in their finite realm. We cannot help but shrug our shoulders at the bottom line as the common denominator. We may ponder why there are so many songs about rainbows and what s on the other side, but we never really go that far in our search...
Brennan succeeded by refining ideas. Those are the real coin of influence. The ones that rank as influential tend to be simple to grasp, endless in their implications, challenging to accomplish but still within the realm of possibility (for instance: Love thy neighbor). Perhaps one of the most influential men in American politics is the late Leo Strauss, the German emigre political philosopher who taught at the University of Chicago in the 1950s and '60s. His distrust of moral relativism, his deep skepticism about the benefits of the Enlightenment and his concern that the unchecked authority of reason would sabotage...
...Carrey's comic genius, with its eerie blend of sublime self-confidence and anarchical menace. To see him, as the eponymous electronics installer, engage in passionate foreplay with a wall, seeking its perfect cable G-spot, then drill into it in rapacious fury, is to be transported to a realm of exquisitely mixed light and dark. Like Matthew Broderick, as the customer watching this performance, fearful and fascinated, we have no choice but to let him further into our lives...