Word: stress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...specialists under Colonel Marshall E. Groover. The medicos can point to a fair record for the group: only 19 heart attacks, including six deaths (among men who did not follow recommendations). But the Air Force program may prove most important for significant findings about the functions of diet and stress in heart disease...
...softly luminous The Street (see next spread), which carried off first honors, was called by one juror "very, very sensitive and charming, with more feeling than almost any other picture there." Fritz Glarner's Relational Painting Number 79, second-prize choice, demonstrated that a Mondrian disciple can stress the master's geometry out of plumb and still retain its purity. An even more austere geometric form, Josef Albers' Homage to the Square-"Yes" won third prize. Robert Gwathmey's The Clearing, a study in posterlike realism, looked downright old-fashioned by comparison...
...scientific investigations." His early works, e.g., Paracelsus (1897), use hypnosis "as a comic and plot device to penetrate the realms of the unconscious." This was the period when Freud still hoped to put hypnosis to good medical use. Later plays, e.g., Intermezzo, Comedy of Seduction (1905, 1924), stress unconscious motivation of behavior not unlike Freud's Studies in Hysteria (1893). These, says Dr. Kupper, were followed by works involving concepts of resistance, transference and repression during the time when Freud was developing the same ideas and giving them wide currency...
...Inasmuch as we have been unable to discover any psychologically understandable process to account for the schizophrenic complex, I draw the conclusion that there might be a toxic cause. That is, a physiological change has taken place because the brain cells were subjected to emotional stress beyond their capacity ... I suggest that here is an almost unexplored region, ready for pioneering research work...
...goal," says Selye, "is certainly not to avoid stress. Stress is part of life. It is a natural byproduct of all our activities; there is no more justification for avoiding stress than for shunning food, exercise or love. But . . . you must first find your optimum stress level and then use your adaptation energy at a rate and in a direction adjusted to the innate structure of your mind and body." How? Dr. Selye boils down his prescription to a light jingle...