Word: melancholia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Steven Armstrong's settings for Rousillon are rather colorless (except in the finale), compared with the blues and golds of Paris and the burnt oranges and ochres of Florence. Also, much of Herman Chessid's background music, full of archaic touches right down to Landini and Burgundian cadences, is melancholia-tinged...
This belief of Alexandre Dumas' Lady of the Camellias was shared by her vast public. For the 19th century, which made tuberculosis both romantic and fashionable, was sure that somehow it was inextricably connected with thwarted love and melancholia. Early 20th century medicine, which sought to explain everything through germs, laughed at the Camille school of diagnosis. But in recent years, physicians have once again begun to see a connection between tuberculosis and emotional factors. Now a hardheaded Scottish physician, David Morris Kissen, practicing among working-class victims in the unromantic setting of Lanark, has reached a diagnosis...
...went on, "I can show you a number of atheists who are happy people and have never known a sleepless night; on the other hand there are many good, even saintly people, in fact some of our great mystics, who are haunted by terrible states of anxiety and melancholia. That formula does not work ... It is also morally wrong...
They showed "lunatics" lying half-naked in filthy pens, or fighting like starved wolverines when a heartless jailer tossed them a moldy crust. Some inmates were in chains; some were being beaten. More astonishing than the play were the players : housewives and secretaries suffering from involutional melancholia or agitated schizophrenia, mechanics or plumbers in manic-depressive states. Among them, confined by court order, were conmen, kleptomaniacs, counterfeiters, and even some who had committed homicide...
Last week, thanks to wide newspaper and radio coverage, Melancholia was the best-known abstraction in Canada. Lealess accepted two U.S. television bids, including an offer to appear with his masterpiece on We, the People. He could also boast a blurb for his painting from an expert who knew what it was. Said Jerry Morris, curator of the Vancouver Art Gallery: "This accidental doodle can be regarded as a work of art worthy of serious criticism on two levels. The artists cleaning their brushes may either consciously or unconsciously contribute to this form and selection by the placing of their...