Word: trauma
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Alfonsin credited the political opposition, labor organizations and business leaders for his victory over the mutinous officers. He was right to do so. In Argentina, contentious factions still contend, but they also band together to oppose any who would replace the uncertain stability of democracy with the certain trauma that would follow its over-throw...
...indeed they are. By the time this night of terror is finished, there is only one survivor: the youngest son Anton (played with stunned bravery by Marc van Uchelen). Inevitably, these events constitute the shaping trauma of his life, and The Assault becomes for the most part a subtle anatomization of the curious manner in which Anton deals with...
Every generation has its crisis. In the 1940's it was World War II--the senseless brutality of Nazism and the deaths of innocent millions; in the 60s, Vietnam, a trauma from which we have yet to completely recover. Today, however, we face a more cunning, fatal foe, a silent malaise that strikes our very souls. I am talking, of course, of the crisis of post-modernism...
...Children die of heatstroke and dehydration in the summer or freeze in the winter," he said of the refugees who have left Afghanistan for Pakistan. He also cited high infant and maternal mortality rates, lack of schools, and psychological trauma as contributing to the poor state of refuges...
...student representative checked himself into University Health Services after serving one term on the CRR, citing psychiatric trauma due to ostracization from his peers...