Word: shell-shocked
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WHILE radicals feuded, "moderate students"- a term encompassing virtually everyone outside SDS and NAC- began to reassert themselves as a political force. The academic year 1968-69 had been one of shell-shock for most moderates, As moderates watched the McCarthy campaign's bloody denouement in Chicago and the dismal spectacle of Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey competing for the hearts and minds of Middle America. political activity on the right of SDS virtually stopped. Some were radicalized: probably a greater number simply withdrew from politics. This absence of a continuing counterweight to SDS in 1968-69 meant that, when...
...other hand, of course, a team that gets off 57 shots in a game as the Crimson did against Northeastern could easily throw a goalie into a state of acute shell-shock and reduce the game to a rout...
...German army was a good laboratory example, Dr. Kalinowsky told the annual convention of the American Psychiatric Association in Detroit last week. After World War I, which produced many "shell-shock" cases, German psychiatrists concluded that the neuroses were caused less by battle experiences than by secondary mental processes, e.g., the wish to escape from danger, and resentment of comfortable civilians. By 1926, pensions were a factor in these neuroses. Thereafter, Germany denied pensions to many shell-shock victims...
...They treat "shell-shock" (a term "loosely applied to almost any neuropsychiatric condition") by coddling rather than discipline, thus teaching moral weaklings to foster their mental quirks...
Against Discipline. Dr. Bowman began his reply by stating that Dr. Link had expressed "more pointedly perhaps than any recent writer, the gross misconception in the public mind regarding psychiatry. ..." The Link discussion, according to Dr. Bowman, contained two plain errors: 1) except for the phrase " 'socalled shell-shock' . . . neither the American Army nor Navy uses the term, and never did"; 2) Dr. Link thinks the use of psychiatry in forward battle areas is novel when "even in the last war the whole basis of psychiatric treatment in the A.E.F. was exactly this." Continued Dr. Bowman...