Word: trauma
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During the second semester of my first year here at Harvard, after the trauma of blocking had long past but still elicited a twinge of discomfort, conversation between my friends and I turned to the influence Annenberg dining hall had had in our lives. Why had Harvard decided to feed all 1600-plus first-years in the same cavernous dining hall? Didn't they realize how intimidating it was to walk in and have to sit with someone you barely knew from section because you couldn't find your roommates among the mass? Sure, it was fine now, but Annenberg...
...suffering from a common sports injury. Variously called black toe, jogger's toe or tennis toe, it's characterized by bleeding under the toenail as a result of repeated trauma. I'd worn thinner socks than usual, which left room for my feet to slide forward, banging my nails many times against the front of the sneaker, or so-called toe box. Shoes that are too big or slippery can create the same problem...
Some things never change. Somewhere, some future president in the Class of '03 is about to suffer the trauma of rejection from Harvard Model Congress, or Let's Go, or any one of the selective student groups on campus. He or she is probably going to think it's because their writing sample wasn't good enough. Maybe, in their innocence, they'd never think it had something to do with whom the person who got the post is dating, or where they went to prep school...
...magnet that drew the capital back to Berlin wasn?t the city?s storied nightlife. Berlin had been Germany?s historic capital, and the establishment of the West German government in Bonn was an expression of postwar trauma (and an acknowledgment of the difficulties of operating in isolated West Berlin). "Chancellor Konrad Adenauer made clear after the war that the reason they chose Bonn was precisely because they were looking for a city without a history," says Wallace. The return to Berlin, its reviled wall now shattered into millions of sobering souvenirs, is a sign then that after the horrors...
...knew about the expectations, and one supposes they were the central trauma of his life. He seemed to hobble through the search for a while--actor, lawyer, person in politics. And then: editor. Of a magazine on politics. But one that treated politics as entertainment. As if he were detaching himself from the heaviness of political struggles, and the tragedies they can bring...