Word: trauma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When it comes to the why rather than the how of his hero-villain, fledgling Novelist Stone is content with a pat childhood trauma. His portrait of a demagogue is colorful but not colorfast: character blurs into caricature, sentiment into soap opera, speech into speeches. But whatever his novel's shortcomings, Author Stone will doubtless enjoy his forthcoming reign as the undergraduate lion of Harvard Yard...
...Crimson is a slim favorite here--assuming, as always, that it has had sufficient time to shake off the trauma incurred in two losses immediately prior to the exam period. The first of these was an 11-1 shellacking at the hands of a brilliant squad of professional amateurs from the Soviet Union; the second, an unexpected humiliation before lowly Providence College...
...centuries-long paring down of its once formidable powers, Britain's House of Lords has suffered many a trauma. But few came as quite such a shock as the Great Trauma of 1922. That year the Viscountess Rhondda, a doughty Welsh suffragette who went to jail once for dropping a crude incendiary bomb inside a post box, had the gall to request a writ of summons that would give her a seat alongside Their Lordships. A few of the noble lords found her petition "irresistible," but not so the grumpy Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Birkenhead. The Lord Chancellor...
...Quatre Arts, Carnival Interlude), Du Bois-whose work is represented in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art-bucked the march toward abstraction, wrote that "the vast majority of today's painters, like victims of battle trauma huddled in dark and silent rooms, shun the real life that flows around them. They seem almost to have become terror-stricken of it-proof, perhaps, of T. S. Eliot's gloomy prediction that the world will not end 'with a bang but a whimper...
...sperm were exceedingly rare). One astonishing statistic, suggesting factors introduced by marriage: while 10% of married women abort, only 1% of unmarried women do so. Also surprisingly uncommon (seven cases in 2,000) was injury as a cause of abortion. "Nearly all pregnant women sustain some type of external trauma and do not abort," says Dr. Javert...