Word: schizophrenia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lynds picked up similar signs of cultural schizophrenia in 1920s Muncie: an antidivorce town with a rate of 42 divorces for every 100 marriages, a thrifty pay-as-you-go culture rushing to buy on credit, and a resentment of federal intervention that went hand in hand with a scramble for the federal dollar...
...reason for this apparent schizophrenia is simple: Tsongas has approved cuts that did not affect Massachusetts jobs, but kept hands off programs that provide jobs for residents of the Commonwealth--especially residents of the Fifth District...
...marathoner and author of The Joy of Running, has a stronger reason for conducting his running dialogues: he thinks jogging is itself a form of therapy. So far he has trained two "running therapists" and claims some success in using jogging as a treatment for depression, drug addiction and schizophrenia. Says he: "I think this is a new and powerful way of reaching the unconscious...
...Student schizophrenia is really rationality in disguise. Why are students so diligent sometimes and irresponsible other times? Why do January demonstrations get into The Crimson and spring ones make The New York Times? What accounts for grade slippage in the second semester? Why are libraries and dining halls the social hot spots of the University throughout most of the year? The weather, of course...
...Paris and the promise of a teaching post at Trinity when he finished. In Paris, Beckett joined the circle of acolytes surrounding James Joyce; the young Irishman's first published work was an essay championing his senior countryman. Joyce's daughter Lucia, who was drifting into the schizophrenia that would eventually disable her, fixated on Beckett as a soul mate. She knew...