Word: soma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relationships become "Love Story," allwriters are Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, orT.S. Eliot, all politicians are FDR, allsocialites are Edie Sedgewick, all academics areJohn Kenneth Galbraith--brilliant, savvy, sexy,worthy of a bad Harvard novel. In the same vein,all depressions become suicidal, and happinessresembles a Soma Holiday...
Ford puts forth the provocative hypothesis in a new book, The Somatizing Disorders: Illness as a Way of Life (Elsevier Science Publishing Co., Inc.; $29.95). Somatizers (from the Greek soma for body) are patients whose maladies result from stress, unexpressed emotions or the need for attention. Explains Ford: "They turn psychological issues into body issues." He cites one of his patients as typical: a housewife torn between a desire to work and a desire to be pampered. For two years, she had been complaining of terrible pain in her abdomen whenever she sat down. Her symptom, Ford says, was caused...
...blues and Rhythm & Blues (previously classified/stigmatized as "race" music) and Rockabilly of such artists as Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley and Ray Charles into the pop mainstream. The first British invasion in the mid-Sixties launched a stream of American one-hit wonders released on small independent labels such as Soma, Laurie, Tower, Bang and Crescendo...