Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Could you do America a favor and call Williams and tell him to do less sappy and more wacky...
...overlook depression. Social isolation or the death of friends and family can shatter anyone's mental state but is particularly difficult to bear with advancing age. Even patients with clear-cut dementia and depression are less confused when their depression is treated...
...wish: rarely has a jazz album come so directly from the heart. The opening cut, George Gershwin's I Loves You, Porgy, is exquisitely tranquil and songful, and the 10 tracks that follow are no less tender. Even Be My Love, Mario Lanza's high-C jukebox hit, is transmuted into a limpid cameo. The result is a record made to be played late at night, when the streets are empty, the air is still, and you feel like thinking about what might have been or could...
Republicans may have rejected the test-ban treaty, as you argue, because they cannot shake Clinton on domestic issues but they can successfully challenge him on relatively less important (from an American perspective) foreign policy issues. Big mistake. This treaty mattered a lot more than some sordid affair for which the Republican right failed to exact retribution. No doubt Europe and Asia will pay the price of American schoolyard politics in the near future through nuclear testing and proliferation. Watch out, Congress. Today Pakistan and India. Tomorrow a country that is right next door? PETER MCNAMARA London...
Hart called his fledgling Internet site Project Gutenberg. Since then, with less than $100,000 in foundation money and 1,000 volunteers worldwide who hunt down books, type or scan them in and proofread, he has assembled a library of 2,250 entries. Go to www.gutenberg.net and you will find an eclectic array of works in the public domain, ranging from the Bible to Alice in Wonderland; from the Divine Comedy in Italian to Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway, translated from Old Norse...