Word: ragingly
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Widows struggle with the idealization that naturally comes when you lose a spouse, because love - and quite often guilt - floods that space. Divorce is accomplished most typically through rage. You don't need death to separate. You need anger. So you are likely to be angry rather than guilty. Widows are accorded a tremendous sense of social respect, as well they should be, because they are weathering a life passage that's very injurious. Divorce is a stigma that says somebody failed somewhere. So from that perspective, your wound is different, and the way the world views you is different...
...called negative emotions can help us get out of it. In his new book, Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life, esteemed psychologist Dacher Keltner of the University of California, Berkeley, notes that we usually conceive of emotions as diseases: we say we are "mad with rage," for instance, or "sick with love." We think the ideal economic decision maker is an analytical automaton. But Keltner, who has made a career of studying the social effects of our emotions, says emotional behavior is sometimes just what we need...
...Paul Blart, who works the security detail at a West Orange, N.J., mall, doesn't even seem to be internalizing the expected rage. A single dad whose hypoglycemia has disqualified him from the police force, he endures the insults of a pen salesman (Stephen Rannazzisi) and the polite indifference of Amy (Jayma Mays), the cute gal at the hair-extensions booth, without troubling to seethe. He motors around on his Segway - riding it is the one thing at which he's an ace - smiling at Amy, shrugging off the rest of the world. Either Paul is conditioned by decades...
...killed when his car stalled on a railroad track. It was an event that Wyeth's biographer, Richard Meryman, says split Wyeth's life in two, so that he spent the rest of it "processing the first 28 years - a long, unraveling of love and guilt and rage...
...national tea month. To celebrate, peruse Tea Culture of Japan: Chanoyu Past and Present at the Yale University Art Gallery. Brought to Japan from China in the 9th century, it took a few hundred years for tea to catch on, but by the 1500s it was all the rage in Japan to have tea masters prepare powdered tea in elaborately choreographed ceremonies. About 100 objects, including kettles, bamboo tea scoops and ceramic tea bowls are on display through April 26. 1111 Chapel Street, at York Street, New Haven...