Word: traumas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plot is like a Freudian case history rewritten for the Reader's Digest -The Most Unforgettable Psychopath I Ever Met. After that trauma on the staircase, young Jimmy Graham's father Harry (Robert Mitchum) is eventually convicted of his wife's murder and sent to the state pen. Jimmy is dispatched to an orphanage. Fifteen years later, Jimmy (Jan-Michael Vincent) goes looking for his father. He has been paroled, and is now scratching out a living as a mechanic in a small town on the New Jersey shore, sustained by his girl friend (Brenda Vaccaro). Vengeance...
Selective Prejudice. New York City's Bellevue Hospital Center has separated its pediatric and psychiatric emergency facilities from its trauma section, installed a 16-bed intensive-care section, an X-ray unit and a computerized laboratory within yards of the emergency entrance. Beekman-Downtown, in the shadow of New York's City Hall, has similar facilities in its newly constructed emergency department, plus an unusual addition: a room with hoses and fans to wash down and aerate those who have been tear-gassed in demonstrations...
Many of us have experienced the same transition from monosexual to coeducational living. For both Harvard and Yale much of the trauma which Women at Yale catalogues is ancient history. We have long since learned to eat scrambled eggs and read our papers at the same tables...
...notion that the U.S. had finally achieved maturity in a confident and realistic appraisal of its role in world affairs was badly damaged last week. Out of the Viet Nam trauma, the nation, it was assumed, had learned the limitations of its power. The Nixon Doctrine sensibly equated goals with means, pledging economic and military aid-but not automatic U.S. military involvement-to those countries whose stability appeared vital to peace and to the basic interests of the U.S. President Nixon's personal ventures in summitry via Peking and Moscow were clearly an overdue recognition of global realities...
Miss Oates' vehicle for this heavy freight is Dr Jesse Vogel, a character who passes through a succession of other characters like a phantom walking through walls. Jesse Vogel resembles Jules in them. He possesses a sense of personal destiny that has been developed by trauma, unusual circumstance and a mysterious, glacial will power...