Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would take them. Rumors abounded--that the virus was spread through poppers, that it was deliberate government genocide, that it was carried in swine flu; I remember thinking that the ultimate gay plague would be contracted over the phone. Soon, however, compassion and terror galvanized the gay community. Anxious mobs attended Larry Kramer's landmark AIDS drama, The Normal Heart, in which medical statistics were painted on the walls of the set and constantly updated. Theater suddenly performed an unheard-of function: at its opening in 1985, The Normal Heart was one of the few sources of data...
...gene's inability to promote an adequate amount of "the molecules that facilitate serotonin reabsorption"? After years of psychotherapy, ingesting the serotonin-producing drug Prozac and beating up on myself for being so "weak," I now learn that science is suggesting I am perhaps no more responsible for being anxious than is the hemophiliac for his medical condition. The fault is not mine; it's in the genes. Not a character flaw but a genetic predisposition. What a blessed, redemptive relief! But now I am worried. How can they be sure? JUDITH M. FITTGE New Orleans
...could be further from the truth. Over and over, Freud cited the individual's constitution as an important factor disposing to neurosis. Further, it is misleading to ascribe the label neurotic to everyone who might be carrying this newly discovered short gene. So-called normal people can also be anxious and worried. GAIL S. REED New York City...
...mother, Wonbok Lee, says she was anxious to send him to college so he could be challenged academically. In fact, she says she hoped he would forgo his senior year in high school to attend college...
Emmanuel holds other concert series in addition to the cantatas: in recent years, these have explored the likes of Mozart, Debussy and Schumann. This year marks the beginning of a 7-year cycle devoted to Schubert. Many of Boston's most revered classical music figures have been anxious to become involved with Emmanuel: composer John Harbison, Seiji Ozawa, the director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Christopher Hog-wood, the director of the Handel & Haydn Society, regularly serve as guest conductors...