Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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JAILS ARE PLACES OF DANGER AND DESPAIR, AND EVEN prisoners with short $ sentences do not always get out alive. Yet that hardly explains a strange string of deaths in Mississippi. During the past six years, 47 men, 24 of them black, have left local jails in body bags. In all but one case, authorities said the men had hanged themselves in their cells. (One 28-year-old man's death was said to have been caused by a heart attack.) After listening to testimony last week from relatives of some of these prisoners, Bobby Doctor, the interim chairman...
...Such despair is shared by native Texan Daniel F. Ostrower '94, for whom the novelty of cold weather has definitely worn...
...book of love. The artful introspection of his previous record, 1991's The Soul Cages, has been replaced by a puckish objectivity; each song is a self-contained vignette, distilling a moment or sometimes an entire life, traversing the emotional spectrum from unfettered joy to the abyss of abject despair. Sting's sonic palette has grown impressively eclectic: he illustrates each tale with a sure-handed array of dramatic colors -- a stroke of Spanish guitar here, a daub of blue trumpet there...
...with caveats, but a paper in the latest Science is more cautious than most. "It must be strongly emphasized," writes a group of Harvard immunologists, "that this study does not demonstrate efficacy." Even so, the news brought a bit of hope to sufferers of a disease that brings mostly despair. The scientists are working on a treatment for multiple sclerosis, the nerve ailment that robs victims of muscle control and, too often, life itself...
...stories. The composer: a little- known Polish avant-gardist named Henryk Gorecki. The music: his Symphony No. 3, subtitled Symphony of Sorrowful Songs -- a transcendental meditation on mortality and redemption for orchestra and soprano. In three slow, slow, very slow movements lasting nearly an hour, it speaks of bleak despair yet sings of sublime hope. Against all odds, this deeply felt, quasi-liturgical piece -- composed 17 years ago but newly recorded -- is captivating a huge public on both sides of the Atlantic, far bigger than most serious compositions ever reach. It is at the top of the classical charts...