Consumer sentiment improved from recent record lows in June as gasoline prices moderated, according to the University of Michigan’s monthly survey. The Michigan consumer-sentiment index rose to 49.5, ...
“Weary after a dull day with the prospect of a depressing morrow,” the narrator of Marcel Proust’s “Swann’s Way” (1913) dips a madeleine in tea, enjoys a sip with soaked crumbs, and is transported.