Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sovereign country. Why should these private American companies come and tell the world whether or not we have done a good job?' It was a bit like asking someone to take off his pants in front of someone he did not even know." Wall Street underwriters stress that going to the agencies is part of growing up and learning to live with the rules, laws and customs of foreign markets. In any case, they have found a way around the problem: the credit agencies are willing to conduct secret investigations of would-be foreign borrowers. If the bonds...
...guitar work is excellent, searing and fluid in a more contemporary style. It's a truly creepy song--the chorus is a very insistent and angry-sounding repetition of the words "I'm not angry any more," and the contrast is chilling. The rest of the lyrics stress again the image of the bitter observer past the point of involvement...
Schell visited the people's republic early in 1976, in the last months before Mao Tse-tung's death. Since then, of course, there have been major changes: Mao's ideal of a permanent, dynamic revolution seems to have given way to a more bureaucratic regime, which seems to stress production, not producers. But--at least before Mao's death--China was unique in its emphasis on change rather than consolidation of power, and Schell was able to appreciate the subtleties of that approach more than most visitors...
...modification; its use is based on the assumption that agoraphobia is a habit to be broken. Treatment consists of gradually exposing the phobic patient to feared sit uations, first by having him imagine them, then by forcing him, for instance, to take longer and longer solo walks until the stress disappears. A more drastic technique, similar to throwing a baby into a pool to teach it how to swim, is known as "implosion"?a patient might be driven to a large empty field and left there for hours to cope with his fears. The theory is that terror drains...
Weekes believes that in most cases psychoanalysis is the wrong approach. She has found that prolonged stress or shock?a death, divorce or birth ?can turn ordinary anxiety into a flash of panic. Then, she says, "the fear that it will recur keeps a person within a restricted orbit. What's the use of looking into that person's childhood for an explanation...