Word: sadnesses
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...fantastic book, but it’s also quite a tragic book. Characters who are very intelligent and have high ideals and are good-looking and seem to have everything going right still make terrible, fatally wrong choices and end up damaged. It’s a very sad book. THC: If you were both stranded on a desert island and could only take one book with you, which would it be and why?DD: I would say ‘Proust’. You could spend your life reading ‘Proust’.LD: I would...
...found that people whose self-control had been depleted by taking a demanding test were willing to spend more on items like watches and cars than those who didn't take the test. The Yale and UCLA researchers changed the experiment by having their test subjects read a sad story before putting a value on the same consumer goods. In the story, a struggling waiter arrives at his fancy restaurant hungry, but he can't eat a single bite lest he be fired. Half the study participants merely read the story; the other half were instructed to "take the perspective...
...sad news is that Chambers, to quote the title from a 1974 movie she did not appear in, is 99 and 44/100% dead. The actress was discovered last night in her mobile home in Santa Clarita, near Los Angeles, by her teenage daughter McKenna Taylor, from the last of Chambers' three marriages. An autopsy will be performed; foul play is not suspected...
baseball season • sad start...
...Globe at all,” said Tara Tai ’10. “If I read the news, it’s online, and it’s from The New York Times or CNN.” “I think it would be sad,” said Alexandra N. Alves ’11, “but I don’t think it would affect me personally.” Other students said they do rely on The Globe for their daily news. Benjamin L. Brinkopf ’11 toured...