Word: melancholia
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This annual melancholia did not generally extend to U.S. parents. Popeyed, they watched the new styles in clothes and friends take form; only half believing, they listened as, with the fall semester, the language began its annual metamorphosis on teen-age tongues...
...this morning depression something to be depressed about? In a few cases, thinks Manhattan Psychiatrist Jan Ehrenwald, it may be a sign of serious physical disease or the first symptom of melancholia...
...with landslide suddenness, down the northern slopes of the Bavarian Alps. In winter and early spring, as it sweeps across Bavaria, it melts the snow and brings to the landscape a strange, bluish haze. German mountain-folk hold to an ancient belief that the foehn also brings sickness and melancholia in its blast...
...outstanding poets (14th-19th Centuries), only two were "demonstrably" insane. The two: Cowper, who most of his life was subject to fits of melancholia and suicidal mania; and Swift, whose mind gave way in the last three years of his life...
From Paris' Right Bank last week came two messages of hope. The hope could be felt by those afflicted with anything from climacteric melancholia to a tendency to burp at cocktail parties...