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...financial outlook in December is fueling concerns that the economy may be heading toward a downturn. "This is a troubling sign," says economics reporter Bernard Baumohl. "Since spending by consumers makes up more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, any dip in the level of their confidence can depress the economy. Consumers are clearly stressed out by being overextended and the perception that job prospects and income growth are very poor. The Federal Reserve Board will probably have to lower interest rates sometime early next year. That may ease some of the consumer debt burden and might encourage companies...
America has a unique civilization based on individual liberty and the right to pursue happiness. Despite Hughes' admonition that Congress's agenda "is going to depress the quality of cultural and educational life for everyone in America," we believe that removing cultural funding from the federal budget ultimately will improve the arts and the country by returning power and authority to the private sector...
...conservatives' agenda, if it goes through, is going to depress the quality of cultural and educational life for everyone in America, young and old, white, black, brown, male or female. This is one of the most ill-conceived, profoundly anti-democratic ideas ever to get loose in Congress. Private philanthropy will never be able to restore what seems about to be taken away. Some will not notice it; others won't care; given the shortness of American social memory, perhaps the next generation won't know what happened. Partial lobotomies work that way. They favor Beavis and Butt-head...
...rare moments, the book is even fascinating. The love letters of Marx, Napoleon and Poe, as well as Flaubert's descriptions of Egyptian dancing girls, are worth reading even beyond their titillation value. The excerpts from Walt Whitman's diary, in which he berates himself for his homosexual longings--"Depress the adhesive [i.e. homosexual] nature/It is in excess, making life a torment/all this diseased, feverish disproportionate adhesiveness..."--are almost as beautiful as his poetry...
...nose ring, tatoo [sic]), Elizabeth Wurtzel is definitely not a Gen-X slacker." Beyond the silly assertion of nose rings and tattoos as indexes of hipness, this statement reveals what is meant as the book's selling point: that it's not just losers without jobs who are depressed, that the world is such a tough place that it would depress anyone, even a cool Harvard student. Hey, I buy it. I've been depressed too, and with many of the same symptoms as Wurtzel's (though I certainly haven't capitalized on it as effectively as she has). However...