Word: manically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poet was a manic-depressive, and his mental illness wreaked havoc on his poetry, to say nothing of his love affairs. He went through periods of creative barrenness that sometimes lasted up to a year. It was when he became manic, or "high" as his friends described it, that he would have to spend time in mental institutions--then he was irrational, a danger to his friends and lovers. Except for Stafford, the women he married--Hardwick and, late in his life, Lady Caroline Blackwood--demonstrated an almost supernatural capacity to stick with Lowell through his bouts with mental illness...
...curtain raiser (The Real Inspector Hound is quite short), the troupe performs Stoppard's equally delightful Dogg's Hamlet. This manic digest of all the famous lines from Hamlet sets the tone well for a lively, if light-weight evening. What with the Hamlet sword play and Inspector Hound's bang-em-up ending, we get a whole lot of corpses for our money...
...late adolescence two strains appeared. Young Lowell abandoned the purely physical world of football and fighting and became a fanatical reader, of Job, of Shakespeare and then of any poetry he could find. He also began to exhibit signs of manic depression. Both aspects showed in his pursuit of a poetic career; in 1937 he journeyed to Vanderbilt University outside Nashville to visit his idol, Allen Tate. He pitched a tent on the poet's lawn for three months...
...Anders provided a manic sense of humor for us when he was really active in past years," says band Drill Master Mike McClung '83. "Technically, he wasn't the greatest player, and indeed he was part of the infamous third trumpets who have the least complicated parts to play. But he managed to transcend his lack of musicality with his antics," adds former Stuyvesant classmate and fellow bandmember Millard Darden '83. "Most of the people in the band are just crazy and so is Anders. It was a perfect...
...Manic Depression...