Word: traumas
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...trauma must have weighed particularly heavily on Betty Ford, given the special burdens that seem to be borne by the wives of men in public life (see cover story, page 15). Yet the Fords kept their anguish to themselves. Betty Ford seemed to glow with good health on Friday morning when she and her husband joined Lady Bird Johnson at a ground-breaking ceremony for the L.B.J. Memorial Grove on the banks of the Potomac River. Later in the day, Mrs. Ford had Lady Bird to tea in the yellow Oval Room of the living quarters at the White House...
...like to credit the film's thesis that Israel arose out of Auschwitz, and do not find the present Israeli cult of the holocaust to my taste. But the trauma is there and makes nought of Mr. Caploe's tasteless numbers game. Hitler actually killed not six million Russians, as Caploe erroneously thinks, but at least twenty million. Yet the cause was not the same as for the Jews and neither was the effect...
...rule, Sepe considers alternatives to jail only for those convicted of a nonviolent crime "where there is not a trauma left on the victim or the community." His aim is generally to give the chance for "a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment" that prison rarely offers. But in each case, the defendant can go to jail if he fails to fulfill the probation terms. A self-described "romantic Italian" born in Brooklyn of immigrant parents, Sepe credits the discipline of a military academy for his own trouble-free youth. As a young Florida prosecutor, he was in charge...
...time when the only way an unwholesome situation can be treated is by facing it and proceeding through the appropriate legal system if we want to retain our individual rights as well as law and order. Now that President Nixon has resigned rather than subject this country to the trauma of a trial in the Senate, to want to go even further and offer amnesty or "off the record" equivalents would be a gross insult to our system of justice...
After the resignation, the predominant themes were relief that the ordeal was over and reflection on the trauma. "Maybe too much has already been written," said the Washington Post, "about the marvels of the system and how it 'worked.' But it did. And it is important to be precise about how it worked . . . in the end and most importantly, it was the conscience and pride and responsibility of innumerable people and numerous institutions that combined to assert that 1) there was (and is) a norm of official behavior that is recognized and respected by all Americans...