Word: traumas
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...myth of Manifest Destiny. Curiously, the members of the baby-boom generation came to believe that the ideas of divine sponsorship and Manifest Destiny were intended to apply to them. Now the boomers, who transform every moment that they encounter and every twig that they step upon into unprecedented trauma or revelation, have arrived at midlife crisis. Noises of the generation's falling hair and its disillusionments -- is that all there is? -- are muzzing in the American background. A certain unease with grownups maybe: in JFK, Oliver Stone took apart a representative American myth with a chain saw and reassembled...
...three sons. It turned out the father was a homosexual. One of the sons, a young man now, spoke before the library board after the Grants started their protest. "He said he wished he'd had access to a book like this when his family was going through that trauma," the woman says. "He said it would have helped him tremendously and would have told him it was O.K. to keep loving his daddy. There was nothing to help him understand the reality of what was happening." On Friday in Goldsboro, the library's board of trustees voted...
...Latino boy who works as its projectionist. But she's also up and doing -- looking for (and eventually finding) her lost dad, arranging a really awful blind date for her mother. Her sister Trudi (Ione Skye) is more troubled and rebellious. She has a "fast" reputation, and a sexual trauma in her past, a doomed love affair and an unwanted pregnancy in her future...
...through this stuff." The Gores entered a counseling program designed to help families endure a medical crisis. Tipper insists that "there was no trouble in the marriage, ((but)) when you face an extremely traumatic situation that drops like a bomb, the smart thing to do is deal with the trauma...
...wife Raisa interrupted to recall that she too is often asked whether she would have supported his reform plans if she had known what was going to happen. She is the wounded one, plainly marked by the trauma of losing power, and she was willing to speak on the record. "Had I known all that I know now," she said, "I still think I would have decided to support him." Despite her pride in what she called "the tremendous breakthrough" of perestroika, she says the past seven years were full of "traumatic events" and that 1991 was "tragic." She cited...