Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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If the subjects of the Advocate's manifestoes may not interest the reader, at least its fiction, which continues to overshadow the poetry this year, proves well worth reading. John Ratte's "Love Story" is by far the most outstanding piece. Its temper is unusual for the Advocate, whose contributors...
The poetry in this issue for the most part cannot compare with the prose. There is one good poem, however, Jean Valentine's love lyric, which because of its simplicity and sincerity effectively evokes the essence of a feeling. It is heartening to see one college poet who seems more...
*Some of Dickens' clinical observations may have been based on his own illnesses. He is reported to have suffered from kidney troubles, facial rheumatism, depression, insomnia, pains in the stomach and chest, flatulence, biliousness, nausea, painful foot symptoms and lameness. He died of a stroke at 58.
Go West, Go East. In 1955 unemployment and depression were almost forgotten words. With 63 million employed and only 2.5 million jobless (many of them unemployable), one of the big shortages was manpower-and womanpower, as the number of working wives reached a record 11.8 million. Short-handed business men...
Died. Ely Culbertson, 64, high priest of contract bridge, author (Contract Bridge Blue Book, The Strange Lives of One Man), founder and president of the peace-minded World Federation Inc.; of a lung congestion; in Brattleboro, Vt. Culbertson introduced new methods of contract bridge, made his name a household word...