Word: traumas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last September, Boston School Superintendant William Leary called a meeting of college and university presidents in the metropolitan area, "to help Boston schools cope with the trauma associated with desegregation...
...waiting for a disaster becomes greater than the actual fear of facing it. In that case, a person may actually wish for the trouble to arrive and thus put an end to anxiety. Another concept is "repetition compulsion." "This applies to people who have a need to master the trauma of the past," explains Dr. Robert Reich, director of psychiatry for New York City's department of social services, who works with the thousands of homeless men who crowd the Bowery year after year. "These people constantly rework their past life; many of them lived through the Depression...
...teen-agers where "sex is concerned, without involving the parents," if they will keep the parents uninvolved when it comes to billing for these services and paying for contraceptives? Will they care for these kids in their homes while the kid is getting over VD, the abortion and/or related trauma...
...inflation and food shortages and political disruptions now had a face. Yes, Chile was under siege and times were correspondingly bad. But one could feel a special elation in the cafes that at last a culprit had been clearly identified and found guilty. Through all the chaos and personal trauma of political and economic deterioration there was finally some small cause for hope, symbolic though it may have been. And symbolic...
...have each remarried and smoothed out their lives enough to have a new affair with each other. Marianne, originally a paradox-woman whose ability as a divorce lawyer and counselor can't hide her personal inability to see the inconsistencies in herself and her marriage, has emerged from the trauma that surrounded her life from the time Johan left her. She questions more, she likes sex more--these are the modern cliches for the bourgeois woman reforged and baptized by divorce--but something subtler has changed, she seems looser when she talks, when she smiles she seems to smile...