Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long-lasting depression, clinical and research-based evidence implicates a combination of family causes and defensive factors: first, experiences during vulnerable childhood years of parental unavailability (often as a result of their own depression, alcoholism or self-involvement), emotional neglect or verbal abuse; and second, the young person's own "characterological" modes of psychological defense (based on withdrawal, self defeat and self-deprivation) that disrupt self-esteem and enjoyment of relationships...
...verbal character of the statement chosen by these students shows at least a lack of faith--if not an outright disavowal--of the power of reasonable argument to approach and define the truth of a matter. This reliance on symbolism rather than substance should be anathema to both the Left and the Right...
...ladies at the MFA, on the twelve-year-old punks at Harvard Square, on the orderlies at UHS and on former Soviet leaders. This week's fashion trend isn't about cheeze labels like "gen-x" or "glam rock" or "punk as fuck"--this trend crosses such petty verbal boundaries. I would suggest that the truly stylin' toss the CK One, grow out that short bleached and cropped hair, stop saving up for the perfect black penny loafers and invest in the single item which apparently rocks the Harvard fashion scene: Big Hairy Russian Intellectual Hats...
November 13, 1994: Harvard torches Princeton, 7-1. The defining moment in that carnage was big man Ethan Philpott (who is taking this year off) scoring a goal to the delirious cheers of the crowd. After that tally, goalie James Konte was yanked and received the customary verbal assault from the Bright crowd...
...Verbal-insult trading is admittedly not a viable option. Hillary Clinton may think a certain Congressman whose name rhymes with "thin witch" is a bastard or an s.o.b., but neither appellation has anything like the force of bitch. The meanest things you can say about a man boil down to attacks on a woman: the mother insult, implying subhuman status and moralsand men can experience its sting only indirectly, at a generation's remove...