Word: combat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...physical shocks may be waning, but the psychological reverberations are just beginning. In the next weeks and months, residents will have to cope with an array of symptoms that are increasingly recognized as the emotional legacy of mass disasters. Just like soldiers in combat and civilians in assaults, survivors of quakes -- as well as of floods, fires, plane crashes, even oil spills -- experience psychic upheavals so intense that their lives are shaken for years. In 1980 the American Psychiatric Association formally labeled such debilitating effects "post-traumatic stress disorder...
...Viet Nam memorial in Washington. But Wheeler favors the final design; Carhart, a lifelong iconoclast, censures the "black gash of shame and sorrow, hacked into the national visage that is the Mall." George Crocker, the classic warrior-aristocrat, is far removed from that fray. He distinguishes himself in combat, rises to lieutenant colonel and becomes the liberator of Grenada, a John Wayne figure "doing men things in a manly manner with other...
...coverage was the work of Roger Fenton, a well-to-do Englishman who left a career in law to devote himself to the camera. Fenton's scenes of the Crimean War, made in 1855, were discreet by the bloody standards of battlefield imagery to come: no pictures of combat, no punctured flesh that might offend Victorian sensibilities. No matter, they represented a watershed. With these views of officers at leisure and a stark gully littered with cannonballs, the curtain had gone up on the theater of combat...
...Hispanic media is winning over advertisers who question the value and size of their audience. "Corporate America thinks of some poor guy living in a barrio who just came over the border," complains Estrada, who claims that half his readers make $40,000 or more annually. To combat skepticism about their ratings, rivals Univision and Telemundo last summer jointly hired Nielsen Media Research, the television ratings service, to verify their claims. Advertising dollars aimed at Hispanics peaked at $550 million last year, according to Hispanic Business, a fraction of the national total of $125 billion. "We are nowhere," admits Telemundo...
Sober analysts and perhaps Wall Street investors may be disturbed by Washington's status quo politics, but most Americans remain in a cautious, conservative mood. They seem even more detached than usual from combat in the nation's capital and content with George Bush's bland stewardship. A TIME/CNN poll last week demonstrated that Bush and the Republican Party have prospered dramatically in this atmosphere...