Word: trauma
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...profited by comparison with the Presidents who followed him; Jack Kennedy promised in 1960 to "get the country moving again," but American society came down with motion sickness. Eisenhower's was the last complete presidency that began and ended without tragedy or trauma and disgrace...
...Rodney Dangerfield is the sap in his own family tree. The line has never been broken. Elevator operators eye him and always say the same thing: "Basement?" On a night out in a Chinese restaurant, he opens his fortune cookie and gets the check from the next table. The trauma reaches into the intimate parts of his life. He has become such a maladroit lover that he caught a peeping Tom booing him. His wife "cut me down to once a month. I'm lucky. Two guys I know she cut out completely...
...only 14 when the market collapsed," says the narrator-hero early in this drama, "but for us it fell apart in small pieces." In The American Clock, premiering at the Charleston, S.C., Spoleto Festival, Arthur Miller is picking up the pieces of a national trauma. The shock waves of the '29 crash and the ensuing Great Depression stunned families, businesses and an entire society, engulfing them in anguish, fear, hopeless unemployment and abject despair. The tremors are still felt...
Researchers hope the results will encourage hospitals to offer counseling to rape victims after the one-year mark, as well as to recognize the connection between sexual trauma and sexual problems...
...indifference to their needs and want more control over their oil and minerals. Still, as Chrétien said of last week's referendum: "It is a signal for everyone to sit down at the bargaining table. We can't go on living with this trauma that has been eating away at us for the last few years...