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...This includes the nice ones, wounded sparrows like the Garnetts, Tom (Chris Messina) and Munch (Melanie Lynskey). Munch can't have kids, so they adopted; this is presented as the ultimate curse. Burt's brother Courtney (Paul Schneider) dearly loves his young daughter, but thinks she will be forever stigmatized because his wife has walked out. Apparently only traditional nuclear families can be happy. Indeed, the one successful brood is the one at the movie's center; they are all the things their friends aren't, and as sensitive as the acoustic guitar sound track mandatory in U.S. indie films...
...completed roughly three semesters’ worth of work, officially withdrew in April, school officials said. Although Cosby had not declared his major, Denise Cosby said that her son had shared his post-college plans of “going into computers and looking forward to a nice, comfortable life.”Friends posting farewell messages on Cosby’s Facebook profile page paid tribute to the amateur basketball player as a strong presence in their social circle who always had a smile on his face.Lucas R. Toffoli ’09, a resident of Mather House, first...
Historian Barbara Taylor and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips don't believe that nice people finish last. In their new book, On Kindness, the authors employ history, social theory and psychoanalysis to chart how kindness has become a pejorative word over the years. Taylor spoke with TIME from her home in London about how success doesn't require cruelty, why people distrust generous gestures and how President Obama might be bringing the virtue back...
...book you use history and psychoanalysis to explain what kindness means today and how it has evolved. Why take that route? Taylor: I had got fed up with seeing stuff in the media about people suddenly discovering that being nice to others made them happier than being self-interested or greedy. How is it that people don't know this? In order to understand what's happened to kindness in contemporary society, it's important to understand how we got here. (See 20 ways to get and stay happy...
...suspicious of kindness? There is a kind of folk wisdom these days that human beings are basically grasping, selfish, nasty creatures. That's how we look at people. That's what we suspect we're really like ourselves. So we're very wary about displays of kindness. The word nice kind of captures that suspicion. It doesn't have much meaning. [Niceness] could just be a masquerade, a piece of fakery. People think that a lot because that's the ethos of our age. I think people would gratefully give up that wariness given half a chance...