Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking for the causes of "coronaries," medical men point accusing fingers at heredity, high-fat diets, emotional strain. Last week the American Psychosomatic Society met in Manhattan, heard a panel of experts examine the kinds of personalities most prone to heart attacks, re-emphasize the dangers of stress. Even the "lethalness of a high-fat diet in our society," noted Dr. Henry I. Russek, consultant in cardiovascular research for the U.S. Public Health Service, "seems to be dependent on the 'catalytic influence' of stressful living...
...stress-blind" personality cannot recognize his own stress limits. He is usually compulsive about time, overworked, burning to be recognized, restless during his leisure hours, and guilty about not working during them. A perfectionist, he is impatient with subordinates, overmeticulous, prefers doing work to delegating it. His job alone does not produce the stress; more frequently, stress comes from multiple goals and his attitude toward them. To compensate for his anxiety, the stress-blind personality over-eats, smokes and drinks too much, commits himself so heavily that he has no time for exercise...
...first volume of short stories. As in his novels (The Trap, A Dance in the Sun), Jacobson's writing is skilled, hard and sun spare. He uses the tensions between Negroes and whites as he would if they were the tensions of love or war, to reveal stress points of fear, weakness or guilt in his characters...
Economics 1, with the greatest enrollment of any College course is a case in point. Using a popular text-book by M.I.T.'s Paul A. Samuelson, the course lays great stress on Federal fiscal policy (e.g. "countercyclical spending" by the national government to help offset periodic business slumps). Lecturers include Seymour Harris, Chairman of the Department and John Kenneth Galbraith, author of The Affluent Society...
...medical men intently watched the graphs. Abie's pulse quickened from a normal 140 beats per second to 175 during acceleration. But for Abie's nine long minutes of weightlessness, her pulse was normal and steady. Under the 38-g stress of reentry, it rose to 222-high, but within acceptable bounds...