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...will have a chance this year to experience and learn from George Whiteside in person, as the 1997-98 Peter Ivers Visiting Artist. The Ivers Visiting Artist is an artist, selected by the Office of the Arts, who challenges assumptions and who demonstrates what Peter Ivers '68 called a "raw, energized sensibility." Whiteside will offer two workshops, beginning in late October, stressing passion and fostering an "anything goes" atmosphere. As in his "Snappy Crayons" productions, Whiteside will emphasize physical discipline over formal training...
...small subset of these brain chemicals, especially serotonin, evidently serves an entirely different purpose. As Steven Hyman, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, describes it, "These neurotransmitters modulate raw information and give it its emotional tone." Northwestern University psychiatrist James Stockard puts it more poetically: "A person's mood is like a symphony, and serotonin is like the conductor's baton." Other neurotransmitters help us know our stomachs are full; serotonin tells us whether we feel satisfied. Other chemicals help us perceive the water level in a glass; serotonin helps us decide whether we will think...
...acted as a go-between for Democratic fund raiser Johnny Chung and former Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary. Such tenacity has earned him a George Polk Award for his reporting on Congress. "Campaign fund raising may seem a strange Washington game," says Weisskopf, "but it's as raw and close-up a look at our government as we have...
...hard to imagine how. No doubt there are already Diana one-liners circulating among stockbrokers or whoever it is that originates the jokes that instantly crop up in the wake of celebrity deaths and big plane crashes; but it will be a while before the general public, rubbed raw by the funeral, is ready to have a laugh anywhere near the late Princess of Wales...
...family history. The impending return of my cousins from work buzzed around my head like an increasingly angered insect, steadily rising in decibel. But the pleasures alone-ness had brought to me over that short afternoon, ephemeral as they may have been, had been a soothing balm for my raw and irritated nerves. To be able to select a room in which to recline while listening to the cheep of birds carried with it the lovely lilt of liberation...