Word: trauma
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...best witch-minus-broomstick style, the scientist seeks revenge by attempting to destroy the symbol of goodness in Metropolis. He brain-shrinks Superman (a difficult feat) with the suggestion that being rocketed out from the exploding planet Krypton as a child has left him with a rejection trauma that demands the compensatory adulation of millions...
Alleviating these sinister superlatives is an exciting idea: it is possible not only to prevent a large number of accidents, but also to immunize passengers against trauma and grave injury when accidents do occur. With effort and purpose, the nation could cut the traffic toll almost as sharply and effectively as it did smallpox and polio. In dozens of laboratories in Detroit, and on campuses from Harvard to U.C.L.A., engineers, statisticians, highway designers, and psychologists are working toward the goal of "delethalization...
...association and requires the reader to navigate as best he can a torrent of reminiscence, admittedly autobiographical but attributed in the text to an aging author who some years previously, on the occasion of his father's death at the age of 80, had suffered an emotional trauma, and in an unconscious attempt to elude the consequences changed his address and his mistress, never suspecting that Freud is not so easily mocked and that, in fact, one morning a few months later he would "pee blood," suffer frightful pains in his abdomen and shortly thereafter undergo an ulcer operation...
With the remark "Using Freud's techniques, the band would suggest that frustrating childhood experiences are the reasons for excessive drinking at football games," the band would spell "mama." Eyeing the crowd the ban would then play "This Could be the Start of Something Big" and spell out "trauma...
Individually, Miss Tolliver turned in the evenest performance of the three. Temin has an annoying habit of representing fear or trauma by having a tightly-reined, slow-motion epileptic fit. And Nagin relies too much on twisting his neck and anguishing. Once an actor has anguished a couple of times he doesn't tell you much about what's going on inside him the next three dozen times...