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The Happiness Myth_ An Expose - Jennifer Hecht [189]

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Epicurus on

and exercise

and food

and happiness

Into the Woods and

Montaigne on

Sexual Abstinence

Buddha

end of grain and abstinence cult

and Graham

who abstains

Sexual Revolution

Wilhelm Reich’s “sexual revolution”

Marie Stopes’s sex advice

The Wedding Crashers and

worry over, as compared to worry over weight

Shakespeare, William:

“come and kiss me”

compared to Donne on death

Hamlet

Henry V’s motivational speech

and Shaw

“thinking makes it so”

Twelfth Night

on wealth

Shanley, John Patrick (Moonstruck; Doubt: A Parable)

Shaw, George Bernard

Fabian Society

on Hamlet’s brief candle

motivational speech

Sheehan, George

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Sherlock Holmes

shopping:

back to school

Black Friday (day after Thanksgiving)

for clothes

and dopamine

garage sales

and happiness

hate of

love of

supermarket

supermarket jackpot

and Wharton’s Udine

Shortz, Will

Sinclair, Upton

fletcherizing

The Jungle

Sisyphus

Skocpol, Theda

Smart, Elizabeth

Smiley, Alfred & Albert

Smith, Adam

Theory of Moral Sentiments

Wealth of Nations

Smith, Ashley (Unlikely Angel)

Smith, Huston

Smith, Joseph

Socrates:

“from virtue comes money”

“know yourself”

Mill on (satisfied)

“the unexamined life”

Soham Tragedy

Solomon, Dr. Henry A.

Sondheim, Stephen (Into the Woods)

song

“Halloween Parade”

“Health Reform”

“Hey Jude”

“If It Makes You Happy”

“Not a Moment Too Soon”

“Star-Spangled Banner”

“Take Me Out to the Ball Game”

“There’s a Light”

“The Wondrous Boat Ride”

“YMCA”

Song of Solomon (Song of Songs)

Sontag, Susan (On the Suffering of Others)

sour charm

spa treatments

Spinoza, Benedict

cites Ecclesiastes on wisdom

on feeling guilty

on happiness

on revenge

Spiritism

spiritual ecstasy

spirituality:

and alcohol

and drugs

and ecstasy (MDMA)

and exercise

and narcissism

Buddhist society

origins in crowds

religious devotion

sports:

American struggle over sports

Catholic vs. Protestant

clothing

dangerous

social rituals of spectators

and women

Stafford, Jean

Stampfer, Dr. Meir

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Star Trek

“Commander Bobbie”

conventions

Crosby, Denise (Tasha Yar, Star Trek: TNG, Trekkies I and II)

Roddenberry, Gene

Spiner, Brent (Data, Spinerfems)

Stewart, Jimmy

Stewart, Martha

Stoicism

Stopes, Marie (Married Love)

Streep, Meryl

Sufis

tea

Mormon Tea

teenagers (and adolescence)

and caffeine

Native Americans

and sports

Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Thanksgiving

Therapeutic Papyrus of Thebes

theriac

Thun, Dr. Michael

Tissot, Simon André (Treatise on the Diseases Produced by Onanism)

Tolstoy, Leo (Anna Karenina)

characters

topsy-turvy:

of medieval carnival

now mostly in art and entertainment

in parades

at Purim

in social events

and Willy Wonka

Toqueville, Alexis de (Democracy in America)

trancendentalism

trances of value

treacle (theriac)

treadmill (see also “hedonic treadmill”)

irony of the electric exercise

Trungpa, Chogyam

Tsunami of 2004

TV culture:

good day happiness

and community

and isolation

Princess Diana in

TV makeover shows

TV news

TV and sex

TV shows:

American Idol

Cheers

Deadwood

Ed Sullivan Show

Everybody Loves Raymond

Frasier

Happy Days

The Honeymooners

I Love Lucy

Mary Hartmann, Mary Hartmann

Project Runway

Rome

Seinfeld

Sex and the City

Six Feet Under

Star Trek

Two and a Half Men

Your Show of Shows

Uneeda Biscuits

utopian socialism (Fourierists, Saint-Simonians, Oneida)

Varro, Marcus Terentius (AKA Varro Reatinus)

Vaughn, Vince (The Wedding Crashers)

vegetables:

scientists claim related to cancer (20th century)

scientists deem unnecessary (19th century)

scientists fail to find correlation with cancer (21st century)

vegetarianism:

in The Bone Eaters

Graham converts to

Metcalfe, Rev. William, New Church

U.S. origins

Upton Sinclair on

Verne, Jules

Victoria, Queen

vigils:

princesses

as psycho-social events

“yearly on the vigil”

virginity

Kore and

vitamins

volleyball

Voltaire

Candide

Washington, George:

death of

on enjoying life

water cure

Ballard on at Ocean Grove

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