Word: afflicted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Checkbook administration, however, has torn apart the subsistence economy of the territory and contributed to an environment of distorted development and social despair. Indeed, most of the same problems afflict the South Pacific islands held by the U.S. independent of any U.N. sanction. These include...
...look at what has gone wrong inside both school and classroom, TIME correspondents visited three U.S. high schools that are not afflict ed with the intractable problems of core city schools. One is in Medford, Mass., a Boston suburb. One is a small-town school in Coos Bay, Ore. One is a middle-size school in Iowa City, Iowa. All are fairly representative of that historic backbone of America's public education system, the public high school. A tale of three cities...
Diagnosis: agoraphobia, the most common and disabling of all the phobias, one that may afflict as many as 2.5 million Americans?85% to 90% of them women. Classically known as "fear of open spaces," agoraphobia is actually a cluster of different fears, all amounting to intense anxiety about panicking in unfamiliar situations. Crowds are no protection; Oppenheimer suffered one attack while surrounded by 55,000 fellow Met fans at a playoff game. Severe agoraphobics stick to familiar routines and rarely venture out alone. When they do travel, they usually bring along a friend, child or dog as a prop...
...Wallraff recounted that Catch-22 experience for a small leftist magazine, and the wide public notice he received persuaded him to seek new roles for his "abnormal personality." He spent three years working at various blue-collar jobs for a 1966 expose of the squalor and drudgery that can afflict industrial workers in affluent West Germany. He posed as a drunkard and later a mental patient to uncover prejudice and hypocrisy among government social agencies...
...hand, Bozzetto's animators have shown none of the wretched excesses and artistic ineptitude of Ralph Bakshi, he of the X-rated films. At the same time, the Italians have avoided the sterile abstractions and moral sentimentality that afflict so much contemporary European animation. The underlying cheekiness of Bozzetto's work rescues it from the pretentiousness that has flawed so many well-meant efforts to demonstrate the range and capabilities of animation...