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Tender Troubles

Tender Troubles"Jo, I'm anxious about Beth.""Why, Mother, she has seemed unusually well since the babies came.""It's not her health that troubles me now, it's her spirits. I'm sure there is…

Eros, in Greek religion and mythology

(Encyclopedia) ErosErosērˈŏs, ĕrˈ– [key], in Greek religion and mythology, god of love. He was the personification of love in all its manifestations, including physical passion at its strongest,…

love-in-a-mist

(Encyclopedia) love-in-a-mist, hardy annual garden plant (Nigella damascena) of the family Ranunculaceae (buttercup family), having finely cut foliage and blue or white flowers surrounded by a…

Brewer's: Trouble

means a moral whirlwind. (Latin, turbo, a whirlwind; Italian, tur&bgrave;are; French, troubler.) Disturb is from the same root. The idea pervades all such words as agitation, commotion…

Trouble with Normal

ABCFriday 8:30–9:00 p.m. Cast:Jon Cryer, David Krumholtz, Brad Raider, Paget Brewster, Larry Campbell The underlying premise of the Trouble with Normal is that in a high-tech age, we have…

Moore, Michael

(Encyclopedia) Moore, Michael, 1954–, American documentary filmmaker, author, and activist, b. Flint, Mich. A highly personal, populist, and frequently controversial and polarizing documentary…

America's Troubled Waters

Source: U.S. PIRG, Troubled Waters: An Analysis of Clean Water Act Compliance, 2007. Since 1972, the Clean Water Act has made significant strides in cleaning up U.S. waterways. Unfortunately, the…

Narcissus, in Greek mythology

(Encyclopedia) NarcissusNarcissusnärsĭsˈəs [key], in Greek mythology, beautiful youth who refused all offers of love, including that of Echo. As punishment for his indifference he was made to fall in…

Love Canal

(Encyclopedia) Love Canal, section of Niagara Falls, N.Y., that formerly contained a canal that was used as chemical disposal site. In the 1940s and 50s the empty canal was used by a chemical and…

courtly love

(Encyclopedia) courtly love, philosophy of love and code of lovemaking that flourished in France and England during the Middle Ages. Although its origins are obscure, it probably derived from the…