Word: staticism
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...course, happiness is not a static state. Even the happiest of people--the cheeriest 10%--feel blue at times. And even the bluest have their moments of joy. That has presented a challenge to social scientists trying to measure happiness. That, along with the simple fact that happiness is inherently subjective. To get around those challenges, researchers have devised several methods of assessment. Diener has created one of the most basic and widely used tools, the Satisfaction with Life Scale. Though some scholars have questioned the validity of this simple, five-question survey, Diener has found that it squares well...
MUSIC | Dear Leader, The Information, The Static Age, The Cignal
...even these rules are not static. Bloom mirrored Dubble’s movements by raising and lowering her leg in a piece where she was to remain stationary, prompting Dubble to exclaim, “Jane broke the rules! As any good improviser would...
...took me some years to realize on what scale Naipaul had made a nuisance of himself. Since the early 1960s, when he began traveling around the world, Naipaul has infuriated not just Indians, whom he called "barbarous, indifferent and self-wounding," but also the citizens of Zaire ("trapped and static"), Argentina ("deficient and bogus"), Uruguay ("intellectually null ... parasitic"), the Caribbean (ruled by "the deadly comic-strip humour of Negro politics"), and the Muslim residents of Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan and Iran (a case of collective "neurosis and nihilism"). Upon landing in a new country?usually a developing nation that had recently...
...film. Any reader who doubts the obviousness of the intended meaning of Lenny’s character should see the film immediately. It’s doubtful you’ll disagree. What Shark Tale ultimately represents, and what makes it so eminently aggravating, is Hollywood’s static view of homosexuality as something that must be hidden from the public. In a political atmosphere in which queers are increasingly gaining agency and winning countless victories in the marriage debate, Hollywood thinks itself sneaky and subversive by throwing a character into a kiddie movie that could be read...