Word: gilbert
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...Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert, the best-selling author of Stumbling on Happiness, argues that people who try to imagine how much they will like or dislike a future event (a blind date, say) are usually wildly off the mark, and that the most reliable measure of their future response seems to be that of someone who has already experienced the event - rather than any actual information about the event itself - even if that person is a stranger...
...Indeed, Gilbert and his co-authors cite previous research showing people's scant ability to predict their future feelings about most things: "people have been shown to overestimate how unhappy they will be after receiving bad test results, becoming disabled or being denied a promotion, and to overestimate how happy they will be after winning a prize, initiating a romantic relationship or taking revenge against those who have harmed them...
...Quincy House Masters last year. Not only do they make it a point to join residents in the dining hall and at HoCo events, but they also open up their residence more often than most Masters. They live in a palatial penthouse suite atop New Quincy, complete with a Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington, RockBand, and a deck that spans half the length of the building, offering views of Cambridge and Boston only rivaled by Mather Tower. A true opiate of the masses—all Adamsian jealousy seeps from your mind upon experiencing the master suite...
...fans of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa captured the image of the frizzy, white haired, eccentric conductor. At the tender of age of 42, however, Alan T. Gilbert ’89, musical director designate of the world-renowned New York Philharmonic, belies such stereotypes. His career has skyrocketed from music director of the Harvard Bach Society Orchestra to his current position. It would be understandable for someone with such a young and illustrious career to be a bit cocky, but Gilbert is decidedly down-to-earth. At a Learning From Performers event at the New College Theatre last...
When he’s not acting in Hasty Pudding burlesques, you might find W. Brian Polk hanging out with his pals from the improv group On Thin Ice or performing in comic operas with the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players; he’s also been spotted performing in several Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club shows. Polk—actor, singer, writer—has contributed an enormous amount of his time at Harvard to the arts. For Polk, theater isn’t just a passion; it’s an incredible community. The San Diego native first found...