Word: byronism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Johns Hopkins. As a fellow at Oxford, she pioneered research into the link between creativity and manic depression. In concerts, television programs and a lay book, Touched with Fire (1993), she has popularized that research, identifying as manic depressive such luminaries as Vincent van Gogh, Robert Schumann and Lord Byron...
...opened on Broadway last week--is more complicated in the summarizing than in the performing; the staging clarifies a great deal. The action unfolds in a grand English country house. The scenes alternate between a few hectic days in April 1809 when a number of guests, including--perhaps--Lord Byron, have come for a visit, and the present day when the house is invaded by, among others, a pair of literary historians who turn out to be Byron scholars (Blair Brown, Victor Garber...
West faces infirmity with the same sort of confidence, seeing his medical history as part of "a big, holistic swoosh." The author of Lord Byron's Doctor gives his own case the Byronic treatment. "From my first chemistry set, I knew that I was an experiment too ... I walked and breathed immersed in a world not mine, not made of me" is a fair sample of his lyric urges. West's prose thrives on making connections: the interactions of hospital gadgetry with his own balky machinery; or how a late Beethoven quartet integrates opposing moods. West lists those moods...
...with a monumental libido, seems to have an inherent fascination in high and low art, he is ultimately only as complex and interesting as his interpreters make him. Igmar Bergman's "The Devil's Eye" drew us in, contextualizing Don Juan in a play within a movie. Byron's unfinished satire of the Romantic hero endlessly absorbs. Mozart created complex rhythms in music and character. Leven constructs a stock male stud from Hollywood's image repository...
...majority is required, the Republicans need 67 votes to pass it in the Senate. The amendment must then be ratified by three-fourths of the states. All but one of the 53 Senate Republicans support the amendment. Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.) is opposed. Others who remain undecided are Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), Wendell Ford (D-Ky.) and John Breaux...