Word: trauma
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...same, Adolf Hitler's presence never vanishes. His career is still the fundamental trauma of the century, the wound through which our shared humanity leaks. Yet it is a disconcerting thought that grandparents are alive today who were not born when World War II broke out. Since it ended, Hitler's life has furnished material for a thousand historical theses. But of late it has moved into the twin fields of memoir and entertainment. Since Albert Speer's Inside the Third Reich was published in 1970, one might suppose that everyone who had anything to do with...
...personal suffering would readily give way to a far greater public trauma if the President were proved to be implicated. Everyone on Capitol Hill dreads the very thought of impeachment, but it is being openly mentioned for the first time in memory. Barry Goldwater conceded last week: "If it were shown that he was in this, there's no question at all that there would be impeachment proceedings...
...often seems based on personality, so Wilfrid Sheed's new-style novel is the portrait of one man, Senator Brian Casey. Crippled by polio since the age of 15, Casey turns his deformity into a power base after he discovers that "people will always be kind". But this childhood trauma is the source of Casey's instability as well as his appeal, and eventually leads to his decision to throw away his chances for the Presidency...
...worth knowing, in the context, that I tend to fall in love randomly, helplessly, with no provovation. With Gladys Knight, Cybill Shepard Kodak advertisements, Candy Bergen Life covers, librarians, bank tellers, and one topless dancer. That was the worst. Imagine the trauma of deciding the girl of your dreams was peeling, in front of the hardest core perverts, in a Combat Zone dive. And now, I'm in love with various elements of roughly six women. It's not an easy life...
That plan points up a drastic change in the focus of efforts to reform the tattered international monetary system. When exchange rates were supposedly fixed, monetary officials puzzled over how to define rules that would permit inevitable devaluations and revaluations to be made without causing financial and political trauma. That problem has now been solved, at least temporarily, by the float: exchange rates will be adjusted gradually and automatically day by day. Now the major task is to draw up standards governing when, and under what conditions, governments will be justified in intervening in currency markets to keep exchange rates...