Word: sylvia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when he and a group of other Young Turks grew impatient with the speaker's stewardship of the chamber. Though he fell out of favor with O'Neill, Panetta fought back, eventually taking control of the House Budget Committee in 1989. One longtime Panetta advantage has been his wife Sylvia, who ran his district office in California as an unpaid aide while raising three boys...
...since Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar has a personal account of life in a mental hospital achieved as much popularity and acclaim as Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted. Published in hard cover a year ago, it immediately became a surprise best seller. The paperback edition (Vintage; $10) is now firmly entrenched on the best-seller list. Kaysen has received hundreds of letters from readers who have also been hospitalized for psychiatric problems, and on her just completed tour of 16 cities to promote the paperback, dozens of people whispered their own stories of mental illness to her. To many...
...Sylvia Maynard '44 was a columnist for The Radcliffe News...
...check into our dorms by a certain hour...and you had to write where you were going," remembers Sylvia Maynard '44. "The dorm mother was in loco parentis...
...once our most destructive and most redemptive condition. Taking on other people's problems exacerbates one's own; ignoring them leaves one spiritually dead. The doctor theorizes that people do not get sick alone, but in twos and threes and fours -- and more. That has happened to Sylvia Gellburg and to the world collapsing around...