Word: despairs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...pulled into a dark land guarded by a dog with no skin. Link's stories are kind of like that handbag. At first blush they look like charming yarns about divorce and TV shows. But they're haunted by dark spirits, and dark emotions, loss and anger and despair. They play in a place few writers go, a netherworld between literature and fantasy, Alice Munro and J.K. Rowling, and Link finds truths there that most authors wouldn't dare touch...
...least I know a few things you might be thinking, and they pretty much go along these lines: Isn’t incessantly quoting movies slightly annoying and kind of old? Did you just get lazy writing your list and turn desperately to imdb.com in the throes of despair? Are you, Marianne F. Kaletzky ’08, really random, slightly weird, and completely underqualified to be on the Crimson? Why on earth should I read a list about some stupid movie I don’t really care about...
Daniel A. Koh ’07, the Voith-Gadgil campaign manager, excused himself from the party shortly after the announcement and returned, teary-eyed, several minutes later. He said that, toward the end of his campaign, his main goal had been keeping the staff from falling into despair...
...transformative healing effects of music”—Gershwin was able to transmute his energy and mischief into prolific art, and in collaboration with his brother Ira, wrote some of the most enduring music of his era. Kogan posits that the sorrow and despair found in some of Gershwin’s later works may be due to a depression the composer suffered before his premature death at the age of 38. When asked if he thought depression could be a source of creativity, Kogan answers, “Mental illness is overemphasized as a source of creativity?...
...world is changing. The old giants of the USSR are toppling , and no one knows whether to pray to the saint or Lenin, or simply to despair...