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...depression is characterized primarily by unusual sleep patterns (extremely heavy and lethargic sleep, far less common than the usual insomnia most other patients suffer), fatigue, mental misery even in the midst of usually satisfying activities and often what the experts term `anhedonia' (utter lack of pleasure on a prolonged basis). This can greatly burden work and social life. It feels like a case of `mononucleosis' that never ends (I have twice had `mono' and the similarities are striking). Hardly anyone else has ever been aware of my inner mental states, and even renowned professionals have not been able to detect...
...enter MOMA's collection. It seemed to both Alfred Barr of MOMA and Duncan Phillips that Lawrence's series represented a unique conjunction of black experience, history painting and a modernist idiom. They were right. From Benjamin West to Robert Rauschenberg, American art is sown with attempts, varying between utter bathos and success, to image forth the American story. And for reasons that are lamentably obvious, practically none of these were created by blacks, until Lawrence appeared...
Michigan prosecutors responded with a request that Kevorkian's bond be increased from $10,000 to $20,000 and that he put up 10% of it in cash. In court Judge Thomas Jackson granted the increase, telling Kevorkian sharply that he had been in "utter contempt and flagrant violation" of the state law. Kevorkian's thin frame slumped, and he said, "I won't move...
...spent my first fall here in utter amazement at the colors of the trees. In the Evergreen State, trees change color only in picture books. Last weekend I walked around the Fens with a friend from Seattle, watching the ducks swim through the leaves that had fallen on the water and marvelling at the clear skies and unseasonably warm November weather...
...There is this area of hate speech...where speech codes often make it more dangerous and risky to utter unpopular thoughts on a college campus than in most places in the real world," Silverglate said...