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...face!" I had never really watched myself before as the star of a film. I had been in supporting roles all the time, and [with those] you can come in and then disappear. But in An Education I'm there all the time, and of course you're so self-involved that it's all you can do the first time you watch it, is to focus on yourself and become convinced that you're the most boring person in the universe...
...participants did not expect to see or talk to the recipient of their offer before or after the experiment," the researchers wrote. "Nevertheless, darkness increased self-interested behavior...
...come together and share ideas, feeding already-established passions and sparking new ones. Frustrated with the “intellectual parochialism” she sees at Harvard, Lavin wants people—herself included —to feel free to abandon the “pre-formed self-definition” that makes many scared to venture outside their specialties...
...1960s hippie collective in Haight-Ashbury that shares the Diggers’ name: “We’re a little more institutional and stodgy than they, but it’s all the same idea: freedom and self-empowerment,” Lavin explained...
...that of Hogwarts’ Sorting Hat. Consider the elaborate pre-Housing Day rituals, which include taking a shot at every coveted house and burning boat sacrifices for the “River Gods.” I’m an atheist, and yet even my freshman self wanted to believe that there was some higher power who was really invested in getting me into Eliot. Granted, not everyone gets the housing assignment they want, but in the end, even the most cynical new Quadling can be turned into an enthusiastic convert who chirps endlessly about...