Word: hansen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Naturally, Perlman has his rationalist assumptions upended. Hansen's serio-comic hero is another good poke at the preening self-confidence of science, in this case the budding efforts at the turn of the century to systematize the study of the mind...
...Perlman's Ordeal (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 329 pages; $24), novelist Brooks Hansen has some serious fun imagining the case of Sylvie Blum, a.k.a. Nina, the pubescent bringer of confusion and disarray into the physician's otherwise detached and antiseptic existence. As a hypnotherapist, Perlman is a hands-off healer. As a closet onanist, he is a hands-on pioneer of safe...
...doctor's true passion is listening to classical music, preferably that composed by the great melodists of the 19th century. The literary equivalent of melody is, of course, story, the engaging what-next of narrative prose. Hansen's tersely told tale hangs expectantly on the outcome of Mistress Blum's treatment, which unexpectedly includes the arcane input of the enchanting Madame Helena Barrett and her spiritualist friends...
...quite Friendship Wisconsin shortly after the Civil War, A Prayer of the Dying is the story of Jacob Hansen, the town sheriff, pastor and undertaker, whose only purpose in the life is to watch over and attend to his people. As an all purpose civil servant for a disparate community, including everything from the spiritual colonists of the Wisconsin woods to simple, hardworking farm families Jake struggles to care for and understand everyone. Added to his cares is the livelihood of his own small family, and it is from his passion to love and protect all these people that...
...suicide is an aberration that suicide happens only to mal-adjusted loners. But this attitude is the problem. Suicides happen to athletes like Annelle Fitzpatrick '00, and musicians like Katherine L. Tucker '94. They happen to David Okrent '99, Benjamin R. Hanson '97-'98, Jason D. Altom and Ansgar Hansen '97. Suicides are ordinary events that happen to ordinary people. To brand suicides, suicidal tendencies or feelings of depression as inherently abnormal and to ostracize their occurrence from the mainstream the way one removes a malignant tumor reinforces the mentality that causes them in the first place...