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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 18:31:51 -0400 (AST)
From: David Francis Mercer <dfmercer@is2.dal.ca>
To: Sociology Graduate Students -- International <socgrad@csf.colorado.edu>
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Thomas:
I would tend to agree.  Witness the personification of 'stress' as a real
entity that shows up repeatedly all around us.  Symbolically speaking,
it's a horror story for adults.
Take Care, David F. Mercer


On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Thomas F Brown wrote:

> I don't have any references for you, but I've been thinking that the
> notion of stress in american culture is not all that different from
> some sort of voodoo demon in another culture. It's an invisible,
> unmeasurable entity, detectable only through its symptoms, and yet
> we all believe quite thoroughly in its existence and its ability 
> to harm us.
> 
> 
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