Word: mals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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French: Le mal du siecle, la melancholie, la Prince d'Aquilaine a latour abolie...
...course, The Rivals has the happiest of endings. Sheridan's people have no identity crises, are not neurotically repressed, suffer from no mal du siecle. They are amusing children skipping through a sophisticated world. And to a world-weary college student they are blissfully refreshing...
...melodies, but there nonetheless. No simple response to those thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to, the Harvard Malaise is a nagging self-dissatisfaction, a dearth of inner order, despite any personal triumph. The fact that the undergraduate rarely enjoys unqualified happiness registers not so much a nebulous mal du siecle as a fairly specific mal de Universite, a heavy burden of melancholy, a perrenial discontent of spirit. He doesn't know why. He just feels "sort of lousy...
These burdens of vague nostalgia, frustration, envy, and guilt merely represent preliminary speculations into the roots of Harvard's mal de universite. Further research is surely in order, and other, more simplistic responses to malaise will bear investigation. There is always the undergraduate with the Noah Complex, for example. He drifts through his four years here. Or the one with the Goliath complex. When he feels uneasy, he simply gets stoned...
...Weary." Leonhardt, 43, is eminently qualified to answer that question. As cultural editor of Hamburg's prestigious weekly Die Zeit, he knows Germany inside out; seven years in England as a foreign correspondent taught him also to know it outside in. Published in Germany under the title X-Mal Deutschland (X-times Germany), this John Gunther-like look at both Germanys sold 300,000 copies and raised many a hackle-or wattle, as Leonhardt would...