Word: senseless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mystified by the "time-slotted" school environment, where crayons are often taken away before the picture is finished because it is juice time. Says clinical psychologist Jeree Pawl, director of the Infant- Parent Program at San Francisco General Hospital: "The structured situation makes them feel powerless. It feels arbitrary, senseless and imposed because at home there is no predictability and rigidity." Confused youngsters may withdraw or rebel, prompting some teachers to peg these children as troublemakers or slow learners...
...able to win a military victory, but its leaders evidently hope to make El Salvador ungovernable until they are ceded a share of the power. Yet the new surge of terror by both sides only brings more bitterness to a country that seems doomed to endless war and senseless slaughter...
This is not to say that Macon's gloom is without just cause. A year before The Accidental Tourist begins, his beloved son has been killed in a particularly senseless crime. As the film opens, his wife Sarah (Kathleen Turner) walks out on him because his grief has made him so deeply withdrawn that he cannot help her bear her sorrow. Her departure leaves Macon with his dismal career as a writer of travel books for people who hate traveling; with the dubious consolations of his own family, a sister and two brothers who are as joylessly guarded and compulsive...
...irresponsibility. Morris' computer expertise is admirable in a diminutive "Wargames" way, but ignorance or disregard for the law is no excuse. While the reclusive "computer hacker" has undeniably become a part of our society, his creativity is better suited to entrepreneurism a la Steven Jobs and Apple Computer than senseless destruction...
...Illness As Metaphor, the 1978 work that emerged from her experience with breast cancer, a mastectomy and years of chemotherapy. The earlier book, by tracing myths that had attached themselves to tuberculosis and cancer, brilliantly discredited notions -- like that of the pent-up, "cancer-prone" personality -- that add senseless guilt and shame to the burdens patients already carry. "But it's much more common now for people to be candid about cancer," she says "because there's a new disease to hang all your fantasies and phobias on -- AIDS...