Word: trauma
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...First National Bank & Trust of Oklahoma City (assets: $1.6 billion) collapsed from the weight of bad energy loans. It was the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history (after the 1974 fall of the New York-based Franklin National Bank) and a likely portent of another round of financial trauma in the oil patch. Just two days later, BankAmerica (assets: $117 billion), the No. 2 banking company in the U.S. after Citicorp, announced a second-quarter loss of $640 million, the second-biggest on record for a financial institution. That brought the troubled bank's total deficits in the past...
...demonstrate that we took steps in one year that the U.S. could not take in 20 years, not only do we get no credit for it, not only do you Americans have no perspective of history as far as this is concerned, not only have you forgotten your own trauma, hesitance and difficulties in persuading your people to accept a new order of civil rights, you punish us for doing what you did but in less time than you took...
...CONFLICTING PULLS of faith and intellect left him at one point last year coping with what he calls a "pretty serious emotional trauma" that caused him to withdraw to his room for two weeks. Melendez says close friends--whom he only half-jokingly calls his "Board of Directors"--"stayed with me all the time, conducted my affairs, ran the Undergraduate Council for me, and basically represented me to the world so that nobody knew I was having problems--and talked me through it until I recovered...
That is a lesson not easily learned at Harvard,where people are either too neurotic or tooself-confident to allow the days to pass at theirown rate. Classmates willfully create crises andproblems because they are scared that happiness isa sign of mental laxity. We fetishize our neuroseshere, dote on trauma, and wallow in our angst. Weget away with it because we have no realresponsibilities here at college, where life is inessence one continuous hang out session and wherewe have the luxury to indulge ourselves in a waythat those in the workplace...
...imagined gap narrows. Each young woman is exceptionally intelligent, and each knows that she was chosen for her first role mostly for her looks, to please the camera as a pretty teenager. Each is the daughter of a prosperous and secure upper-middle-class family that was shaken by trauma. Sheedy's parents separated when she was nine, and she spent the rest of her childhood shuttling between two households nine blocks apart in Manhattan, never knowing where she had left her sneakers. Bonham Carter's father, a merchant banker, suffered a brain tumor when...