Word: trauma
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...saga of Stan, which takes potshots at everyone from the Pope to Prudential Insurance, will garner giggles from all segments of society. Much of the rest of Auslander’s collection, however, seems narrowly targeted only to those who have suffered the trauma of a bris...
...troops as they are lifted by helicopter within minutes from the kill zone to the combat hospital. From there they are flown 6 1/2 hours to the military's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, which has evolved from a small backwater military hospital into a top-line trauma center...
...hybrid demon-human creatures, can cross the border between heaven and hell and upset “the balance” between God and Satan’s bid for human souls. Young Constantine’s terrifying visions classify him as a psycho. As a result of the trauma of his visions and equally horrific “therapy,” he commits suicide...
...similarities between his dual homes: "The two cultures overlapped. Home Counties England of the 1960s had very much the same stiff upper lip, restrained manners, social conformity feel of Japan. That's partly what infuses my writing." But behind the facade of the ordinary is the extraordinary trauma of his hometown. The atomic bomb was hardly spoken of in Nagasaki when Ishiguro was a boy, but now his conversation is peppered with references to it. He describes the cloning debate as "the same as nuclear physicists must have felt before developing the bomb. We're aware of tremendous potential benefits...
...agenda by igniting pointless and distracting controversies. In other instances, such as the curricular review, President Summers’ insular leadership has probably made his work less successful rather than more. What, exactly, has Larry Summers done that Neil Rudenstine could not have also accomplished, and without the trauma...