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...most severe inconvenience, however, is that the owners have the gall to return. Despite the downfalls of housesitting, the attraction of a place in the suburbs is a drug, and I'm suffering from "Suburban Syndrome." Less of a problem than a sympton, I've been sucked into playing the role of a homeowner...
Bate termed President Derek C. Bok's failure toapprove Watson's tenure nomination a sympton of "asort of arteriosclerosis" that has beset Harvard'stenure process...
Epidemic anxiety-neurosis has a mass social aspect. "Many of the practices of governments around the world are clearly neurotic," said Humes, asserting that the behavior of the superpowers is determined by "weapons fetishism," a sympton seen in the individual "gun nut." "You could say that weapons fetishism is investing weapons with the power to save, and it's an understandable fetish. The rationale of the neurosis is always overwhelming to the patient who's suffering from it." The arms race "can be regarded as a symbiotic neurosis...(and) unless you can heal both parties to the symbiotic neurosis...
...infighting is only a sympton of a larger battle over athletics taking place in the administration. The alumni's concern over the appointment of a non-Harvard "outsider" to run the department is more than just a clubhouse expression of faith in Harvard's supposed superiority. It also reflects a greater fear that someone not connected with the University might de-emphasize intercollegiate athletics and concentrate too much effort on building up an intramural sports program and making facilities available to graduate students and faculty...
...increasing population into account, was up 15.3%. For murder, the increase has been 8.9%; for burglary, 14.6%. But one sympton of how haphazardly the U.S. has dealt with lawlessness is that, despite these seemingly precise figures, there is no certain knowledge of just how badly off the country is. Statistics have been kept only since 1930, and their basis-reports of known offenses submitted to the FBI by local authorities-is seriously flawed. In some categories, accurate comparisons between eras and areas are impossible because methods of collecting data have changed and local police departments vary in efficiency and candor...