The Happiness Myth_ An Expose - Jennifer Hecht [185]
anxiety/worry:
and death
and debt
Don’t Worry Movement
and drugs
and exercise
in fairy tales
and fertility
health
leeches and bleeding
location and
money and
Montaigne on
and the news
sex and sexiness
Spinoza on
as wolf
Aristotle
and moderation
on money
Montaigne’s question
Nicomachean Ethics,
virtue and happiness
Asbury Park
Ash Wednesday
associations (see clubs)
Athanasius, St.
Atwater, Wilber
Augustine
Aurelius, Marcus
on controlling desires
don’t expect Plato’s Republic
on fame
on fear of death
Galen and opium
on how someone will always hate you
on life as opinion
Meditations
on mental vacation homes
on pleasure
rules for forgiving
Australian Aborigines
automobiles
Avicenna (Latinized name of Ibn Sina)
Bakhtin, Mikhail
on the carnival
Bakker, Jim
Bakr al-Razi, Abu
Ballard, Rev. Aaron E.
Bandreth, Turner, Ludlam (Pentrich Rising)
Bardo, Michael
Barnard, Mary
Barnes, Djuna (Nightwood)
baseball
basketball
Battle Creek Sanitarium
Bayer
Beard, George (neurasthenia)
The Beatles, (“Hey Jude”)
Beckham, David (Manchester United)
Benedict, St. Rule
Berkeleyan idealism
Bernhardt, Sarah
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo
Besant, Annie
Bible
Christian
Ecclesiastes
Garden of Eden
Hebrew
Jacob/Israel
Joseph
Magdalene
Martha
Mary
Song of Solomon
birthrate
Blair, Steve
Blair, Thomas
Blake, William
bleeding
blue blood
body
Boethius (The Consolation of Philosophy)
bones
The Bone-Crackers(play)
Bosch, Heironymous
Boyle, T. Coraghessan, (The Road to Wellville)
Bradley, James
bread:
in The Bone-Crackers,
as cake with “Happy” on it
as dangerous with butter
in Ecclesiastes
hand in slicer
hemp-seed
means of friendship
in metaphor
mom’s (homemade)
with poppy
shaped as genitals
sliced
Brent, Charles Henry
Brickman, Philip (“hedonic treadmill”)
Broad, C.D. (Charlie Dunbar)
broccoli
Brody, Jane E.
Brooks, Albert (Defending Your Life)
Brown, John (Elementa medicinae)
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
bubble baths
magnesium bubbles
films and symbolic meaning
Buddha:
on controlling desires
on death and dying
the Middle Way
on money
on public virtue
and sex
and women
Buddhism:
afterlife origins
introduction
Nirvana
Burkert, Walter
Burroughs, William S.
Burton, Robert
Butler, Ellis Parker
Bye Bye Birdie(musical)
Byers, Tim E.
cake:
birthday and wedding
“cake of Happy” (soap)
as “dangerous” pleasure
shaped as genitals
as sign of plenty
as symbol for “a party,”
Calvinism
Campbell, Donald (“hedonic treadmill”)
cancer
capitalism
effect on middle-size community
Adam Smith
threatened by contentment
cars
carnival:
children’s carnival
has no footlights
medieval
metaphor for mortality
one of H. G. Wells’s “doors in the wall” of perception
vs. today’s public decorum
Carver, Raymond (“Happiness”)
Casanova
Catholicism Muscular Christianity
Cattrall, Kim (Sex and the City)
Ceres
Charlotte, Princess
Chlebowski, Rowan T.
Cholera epidemic of 1830
Christianity
Churchill, Winston
Cicero
bliss of scholarship
on the existence of gods
on the Stoics
Cinderella
Civic Humanism
Civil War, U.S.
Climacus, St. John
clothing:
corsets vs. exercise
dressing
and “fitness” types
shopping
sports gear
top hats
transvestism (drag)
used
as women’s lifelong labor
clubs
American Historical Association
Audubon Society
Boy Scouts
Campfire Girls
Ferein Clubs
Hadassah
History of Science Society
Knights of Columbus
NAACP
National Puzzlers’ League
PTA
Red Cross
Rotary
Sierra Club
Teamsters
Turner societies
Coca-Cola
coffee:
addiction
availability
bar
break
future of
Graham’s rejection of
as happiness drug
marker of our times
Mormon rejection of
in poetry
rejection in The Bone Crackers
shop
styles and meanings
White’s rejection of
Cohn, Norman (The Pursuit of the Millennium)
Colbert, Claudette (The Sign of the Cross)
Coleridge, Herbert
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (“Kubla Khan”)
Coleridge, Sarah (“Poppies”)
Collins, Wilkie (Armadale)
Commodus, Emp.
communism
Cooper, Kenneth (aerobics)
Cornflakes