I've attended stress-control classes, attempted mindfulness sessions and sadly taken it out all too often on my long-suffering partner.
Listening to the political classes attempting to come to terms with the destruction of Dominique Strauss-Kahn today, I heard hardly a thought for his accuser.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Chogyal Palden Thondup Namgyal, supported by the minority Bhutia and Lepcha upper classes, attempted to negotiate greater powers, particularly over external affairs, to give Sikkim more of an international personality.
Eric Lott's fascinating Love & Theft contends that the form, rather than blossoming from hatred, reflected a white working-class attempt at fostering a transracial union through ironic miming, even if this desire rarely, if ever, transcended the realm of "theft," A.K.A. the white appropriation of black expressive forms.
Often, too, 20th-century dictators in Latin America allied themselves with a particular social class, attempting either to maintain the interests of established economic groupings or to press social reforms.
"A few members of my senior class attempted to find ways to give him demerits so that he would be discharged," Mr. Carter said, "but Brown's good performance prevailed".
The episode ends with the class attempting to prove the reformulated conjecture.
Before the first home football game each year, the freshman class attempts to make its mark on campus by covering Eagle Walk with gold paint.
The design of the Gazelle class attempted to merge the fleet scout with the colonial cruiser.
She was a young actress in his class, attempting to grow her craft, yet she didn't like him.
