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...Grow Too Old To Dream,” a 1935 tune which Elling quickly belted out, as if to get the words over with, then carefully leaned into notes, producing a searing, rich sound like an alto saxophone. Carter, on the other hand, rollicked over her melody with a slight glissando. At the same time, her raw, grainy sound evoked the subtle sadness and melodic cry of the human voice, which provided a nice counterpoint to Elling’s precise pitch placement...
...depression. The pre-1980 definition had described "depressive neurosis" as "an excessive reaction of depression due to an internal conflict or to an identifiable event such as the loss of a love object." The much longer 1980 definition (which carried on into DSM-IV and DSM-IV-TR, with slight modifications) omitted the requirement that symptoms be "excessive" in proportion to cause. In fact, the revised manual said nothing about causes and listed symptoms instead...
Though today he has no regrets about that decision, there’s always that slight feeling of nostalgia every time he walks past Harvard Stadium...
...that is not necessarily reassuring from a man who has the weight of Obama's Afghanistan policy on his shoulders. But that may be because Gates has something of the writer's sensibility about him. He has the look of a man both in the moment and at a slight angle, peering in, through dark glasses, upon the human comedy. In his 1996 memoir, From the Shadows, he wrote, "I was, during the remarkable events from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, there in the shadows, the proverbial fly on the wall in the most secret councils of government...
...Crimson’s disheartening performance comes after a slight uptrend in the team’s performance in the past few weeks. Harvard notched consecutive wins over ranked opponents, then No.5 Yale, then No.8 Quinnipiac, and then No.13 Union, before falling 2-1 to Princeton on Friday...