Word: trauma
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...publication date appears too clever by half, almost coinciding with completion of the presidential primaries and a still faintly possible last-minute "draft Humphrey movement." But Education is no campaign document. It is more an apologia, a mea culpa for the Nixon trauma that Humphrey believes he could have spared the nation, a cry for understanding of a tragic flaw in character that prevented him from doing...
...Murphy, 54, of Alexandria, Va. "But I cannot jam my religious beliefs down someone else's throat." Jan Slevin, a nurse, refused to work in the obstetrics unit of Washington General Hospital because of the many abortions performed there. "In a case of incest, rape or some psychological trauma," she concedes, "I can see a morning-after pill or a shot to prevent pregnancy. But I think abortion is morally evil. It is a taking of life...
Last week Ziff-Davis confirmed that Harris has been fired. Neither side would talk openly about the psychic trauma, but Harris' problem seemed to be one of style rather than substance. A former TIME writer and bureau chief and Look senior editor, Kentucky-born...
Mack plays down the importance of "trauma" in Lawrence's development, and focuses instead on his subject's creativity. This emphasis makes a great deal of sense, since Lawrence had without doubt a one-of-a-kind imagination. The study of medieval romances consumed him as an undergraduate, and even as a boy he dreamed of someday helping an oppressed people to free themselves. The Arab campaign gave Lawrence his own modern Crusade, Mack says, and the Turks became the dragon for this latter-day St. George to slay...
Unwanted pregnancy is a tragedy, and for a young woman already confronted with the complex personal relationships and career pressures of college, there is no solution that is without suffering and trauma. In establishing financial support for abortions UHS and, by extension, Harvard University, would advocate a particular decision which, although saving the woman from child-bearing, necessitates the destruction of human life. The implications are unquestionably serious, but our society today tends to ignore such implications-as a Cornell health insurance officer remarks, an abortion is "a lot cheaper than having a baby...