Word: stress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guide the nominations, a new profile of a model bishop puts greater stress on theology (an area in which many U.S. bishops are weak) and emphasizes "social sense, spirit of dialogue and cooperation, and openness to the signs of the times...
...Psychologist David Clayson. In a paper presented to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Downs and Clayson offer convincing evidence that among women who have abortions, pregnancy is initially "more wanted than unwanted." Far from being accidental, it represents a subconscious effort to cope with extreme emotional stress...
These percentages are the first statistical evidence that most abortion patients have conceived while under exceptional emotional stress. The results seem to support the widely accepted psychiatric belief that pregnancy is seldom a chance occurrence. Thus, Downs and Clayson conclude, the women they studied had unconsciously "chosen" pregnancy as a way of repairing "a threatened or damaged psyche." They needed their supposedly unwanted pregnancies, at least for a while, "to prove something to themselves"-perhaps that they were truly feminine, or that they were whole enough to create, or that they need not be entirely alone...
Other Northeasterners also stress the practical advantages of co-op education. Says Calvin True, 25, a law student who spent last term as a probate clerk: "Coop gives you practical experience in a field in which you desire to practice, and you know what you want to do when you graduate." Alan Kandel, a management major who worked as an accountant, agrees. "I have friends in other schools who take summer jobs, and I know I'm way ahead of them...
This is Arthur Miller's play about courage. In quality, it ranks second only to his finest play, Death of a Salesman, a drama concerned with the lack of courage. Both plays stress the cost of personal integrity, the price one pays for having it, and for losing...