The Happiness Myth_ An Expose - Jennifer Hecht [189]
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