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...spine.” There is also an extended version of “This Charming Man,” a live cover of James’ “What’s The World,” and superb live run-throughs of “London,” “Meat is Murder,” and “Half a Person.”Interspersed among these rarities are many of the band’s most important B-sides and album tracks. The inclusion of diverse and affecting songs like the politicized...
...evening, say organizers at The School of Life in London, is designed to help guests open their minds "to be tickled, exercised and expanded." But for struggling actress Katie Mooney, 24, the process proves more awkward than enlightening. "It feels like a mixture between speed-dating and therapy," she says. Indeed, Mooney is seated opposite a clinical psychologist who, just five minutes into the first course, has already shared his fear that his patients desire him sexually and his deep resentment toward his parents for sending him to boarding school. "I didn't even know his last name," Mooney says...
...Pushing people out of their comfort zones is an essential aim of the School of Life, which opened in September. Situated in Bloomsbury, once home to London literati like E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf, the school promises "intelligent instruction on how to lead a fulfilled life." Physically, it's a small bookshop with a classroom in the basement, but it has the earnest feel of a book club hosted by a psychotherapist. Instruction can take the form of six-week courses on family, love, play, politics or work ($320), or can involve spending an hour with one of the school...
...Those facing personal quandaries can consult resident "bibliologists" who dispense reading prescriptions ($56). When one young expat recently sought to palliate his profound distaste for London, therapist Ella Berthoud suggested Oliver Twist. She reasoned that he "might identify with the street urchins through whose disillusioned but ever hopeful eyes Dickens' London is observed...
...there something you've dreamed of doing for a long time? Why haven't you done it?" she responds candidly: "There are so many things I'd like to do - travel, swim with sharks - but money always stands in the way. It's a fight for survival in London." And that's a problem not even a generous helping of philosophy can solve...