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...being is challenging because its definition is elusive. But researchers at Princeton University have been developing a new technique for collecting data about what activities make people feel good - and what they find bothersome. Many academics employ an older system that Csikszentmihalyi helped develop called the Experience Sampling Method (ESM). Subjects are beeped (via a pager or hand-held device) at random intervals during the day, usually every few hours, at which point they jot down what they're doing, who they're with and how they feel: bored or very much enjoying themselves...
Illustrations for the story are by Russell Hoban, 36, who is such a Salinger fan that he and his wife named two of their daughters after Salinger characters, Esmé and Phoebe. In painting how Zooey, Franny, Mrs. Glass and Holden look to him, Hoban was fearful of violating "their private rights to exist in the reader's mind," and tried to be scrupulous to the author. "Salinger, I think, is a man without eyelids," says Hoban. "All of his material comes to him so painfully; it costs so much to write, more than anyone else who comes...
...Died. Esmé Stuart Lennox Robinson, 72, Irish dramatist (The Whiteheaded Boy, The Lost Leader, The Far-Off Hills'), a longtime director of Dublin's Abbey Theatre, short-time secretary to George Bernard Shaw; in Dublin...
...Married. T. S. for (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, 68, St. Louis-born, naturalized-British Nobel Prizewinner and brilliant, brittle poet of time and mortality (The Waste Land, Four Quartets); and Esmé Valerie Fletcher, 30, for seven years his private secretary at Faber & Faber, Ltd., London publishing firm of which he is a director; he for the second time (his first wife, whom he married in 1915, died in 1947), she for the first; in an Anglican ceremony in London's St. Barnabas Church (Kensington) held at 6:15 a.m. to avoid Fleet Street newsbeagles. Obscurantist Eliot on the gulf...
Herbert Howard, son of Sir Esmé Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S., in company with one Edward Bullough, fellow student at Caius College, Cambridge, paid a visit to Pope Pius XI. They presented to His Holiness a petition asking the Canonization of the Blessed Cardinal Fisher, onetime Chancellor of Cambridge, and the Blessed Thomas More, onetime Lord Chancellor of England. In the 16th Century these men opposed King Henry VIII's divorce from his first (Catholic) wife; both were beheaded. The Pontiff conversed with the two youths for one half hour, recalling his visits to England...