Miller rarely talked about the war in the years that followed – Penrose describes how she spent them "in a misery of depression and alcohol abuse" – but she gave evocative accounts in her reports for Vogue.
In the American experience, the miseries of the Depression are funny in the way that the Army is funny to draftees — a shared catastrophe, a levelling, forming part of our common background.
Still, he writes, "Despite all the miseries of the Depression and the recurrent fears of new economic decline and of war, the bulk of the American people had not yet quite lost their basic asset of hopefulness".
Its objective is to simulate the misery of clinical depression, which probably qualifies it as the most masochistic video game of all time.
Even if some women do suffer post-abortion depression, which anecdotally may be the case, this does not mean that the phenomenon is nearly as widespread or as severe as the well-documented misery of postpartum depression.
A name which, to those who don't know the city, suggests unspecified post-industrial misery, a cloud of depression somewhere disconnected and remote.
"Voices of Protest," for which he won a National Book Award, revisited the cartoon demagogues Huey Long and Father Charles Coughlin and established their important role in forcing President Franklin D. Roosevelt to pay attention to the economic miseries of the Great Depression.
Novels of the 1930s inclined toward radical social criticism in response to the miseries of the Great Depression, though some of the best, by writers such as Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Henry Roth, and Nathanael West, continued to explore the Modernist vein of the previous decade.
We are not in a depression, and we are not even remotely close to the pain and misery of the Great Depression.
Alcohol is one of the main drivers of depression in this country: this misery would evaporate overnight as people took back control of their lives.
