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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...archetype of the current genre is Happy People, by Columbia Psychology Professor Jonathan Freedman. It promises to reveal "what happiness is, who has it and why." Freedman analyzes the results of both popular surveys and casual interviews and also attempts, he says, "to present what we, as social scientists, know about happiness." Soon to be published is Optimism: The Biology of Hope, by Rutgers University Anthropologist Lionel Tiger; it explores the possible biological origins of the human sanguineness that underlies feelings of wellbeing, whatever they are called. New York Psychoanalyst Willard Gaylin has just weighed in with a study called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Scientific Pursuit of Happiness | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...single most important factor in making all-conference appears to be playing for a winning team. Penn, undisputably the class of the league, placed three men on the squads (Tony Price and Matt White on the first team, James Salters on the second team), as did second-place finisher Columbia (Alton Byrd on the first squad, Juan Mitchell and Ricky Free on the second...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Ivy League Turns To Laurels | 3/14/1979 | See Source »

Steve Schramm, the Crimson's other springboard superstar who is still recovering from head and shoulder injuries sustained in a diving accident February 28, barely missed qualifying in the low board. His score (446.52) was 1.63 points behind Mike Gurnee of Columbia's fourth-place total...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Greacen Qualifies for NCAA Diving | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

Nozick said when he was an undergraduate at Columbia he was an atheist and thought special concern for Jewish issues was parochial. He said the Black student movement and sympathy for Israel during the Six Day War helped make particularist principles acceptable to American Jews. "Whe I was an undergraduate, I would have avoided this lecture," he added...

Author: By Steven J. Sampson, | Title: Nozick, Walzer Predict Jews Will Focus on Jewish Issues | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

DIED. W.A.C. Bennett, 78, nicknamed "Wacky," longtime Premier of British Columbia (1952-72), whose aggressive economic policies gave his province an unprecedented prosperity that became known as "Bennett's boom": in Kelowna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 12, 1979 | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

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