Word: trauma
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...aided by benign dragonlike beasts called Blengins. Virtue triumphs in the end--over whole landscapes of child corpses. Since Darger probably began writing the work between 1910 and 1912, it's likely that his unreadable Iliad of two nations contending over slavery was a delayed response to the great trauma affecting his father's generation, the American Civil...
...about abuse or betrayal but about world history and diplomacy. And it is fitting too that the woman who grew up in four countries and speaks five languages now has an even more complicated identity. But for many Holocaust survivors who learn their family history as adults, the trauma lies not so much in the facts but in the fact that they were hidden. Albright, says her sister Kathy Silva, is the reincarnation of their father Josef Korbel. Albright studied what he studied. He set her standards for excellence, integrity and discipline. "A great deal of what...
Testimonies to the trauma of studying appear prominently in the jumble of graffiti. "Exams truly suck," reads one. "Harvard sucks," says another. And, there's the more specific gripe, "I hate Lamont...
...didn't know it at the time, but going through the complexity and trauma of child-rearing may have given me a predisposition to family history," Ozment says. "The personal, human side of history is never lost in studying the family...
What wires a child's brain, say neuroscientists--or rewires it after physical trauma--is repeated experience. Each time a baby tries to touch a tantalizing object or gazes intently at a face or listens to a lullaby, tiny bursts of electricity shoot through the brain, knitting neurons into circuits as well defined as those etched onto silicon chips. The results are those behavioral mileposts that never cease to delight and awe parents. Around the age of two months, for example, the motor-control centers of the brain develop to the point that infants can suddenly reach out and grab...