![]() Natalie Wilton, a therapist who specializes in senior sexuality, says it's no surprise that people feel pessimistic about sex as they age. Also, "sexually optimistic" individuals who acquired physical limitations they didn't have ten years before – such as pain that made it harder to lift groceries or exercise – reported having more frequent sex than people who had lower sexual expectations and no such limitations. Participants who were optimistic about their sex lives reported having significantly more frequent and more satisfying sex than those who had lower expectations. Their findings seem to demonstrate the power of positive thinking. Researchers then checked in with the participants a decade later. Īs part of the MIDUS (Midlife in the US) study, hundreds of partnered adults ages 45 and up were asked to rate how satisfying they expected their sex lives to be 10 years in the future. ![]() ![]() To get more stories like this delivered to your in-box, click here to subscribe. This story was adapted from the April 30 edition of NPR Health, a newsletter covering the science of healthy living. ![]()
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![]() ![]() "The Critic as Artist" is a significantly revised version of articles that first appeared in the July and September 1890 issues of The Nineteenth Century, originally entitled " The True Function and Value of Criticism." The essay is a conversation between its leading voice Gilbert and Ernest, who suggests ideas for Gilbert to reject. A dialogue in two parts, it is by far the longest one included in his collection of essays titled Intentions published on. " The Critic as Artist" is an essay by Oscar Wilde, containing the most extensive statements of his aesthetic philosophy. JSTOR ( January 2011) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "The Critic as Artist" – news ![]() Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification. ![]() ![]() ![]() In “A Farewell to Alms,” Gregory Clark, an economic historian at the University of California, Davis, suggests an intriguing, even startling answer: natural selection. David Landes, an economic historian and a living national treasure if there ever was one, began this movement nearly 10 years ago when he looked in part to culture to explain “why some are so rich and some so poor” (the subtitle of his classic overview of world history).īut why not go one step further: If culture is responsible, where does it come from? Why do some countries have an economically helpful culture while others don’t? And, since no society got very far in economic terms before the Industrial Revolution, what caused the culture of the recently successful ones to change? ![]() ![]() But where did they come from?Īfter decades of banishment to the realm of sociology and other such disciplines, the idea that a society’s “culture” matters has recently reappeared in economics. Do we think technological progress was responsible for the Industrial Revolution and the astonishing increase in living standards in some countries but not others since then? Fine, but what brought about the new technology? Maybe social and political institutions - democracy, tolerance, the rule of law - played a role in when and where living standards increased. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book's central plot concerns a plan to liberate all the animals from the Vienna Zoo as happened just after the conclusion of World War II. The original manuscript for the book was submitted as his Master's thesis at the University of Iowa's Writer's Workshop in 1967, and was later expanded and revised to its published version. Irving studied at the Institute of European Studies in Vienna in 1963, and Bears was written between 19 based largely on Irving's understanding of the city and its rebellious youth of the 1960s. Setting Free the Bears is the first novel by American author John Irving, published in 1968 by Random House. ![]() ![]() ![]() Janice resumes her solitary drinking, this time with tragic results while in a drunken stupor, she accidentally drowns the baby. ![]() For a time, they live in relative harmony, but Janice's insistence on a less active sex life leads to bitterness, and Rabbit again takes off. When Rabbit moves in with Ruth, Jack Eccles, the family minister, tries to persuade him to return to his wife, but Rabbit refuses.Įventually, Rabbit also becomes disenchanted with Ruth, and when Janice has her baby, Rabbit goes to the hospital and effects a reconciliation. Marty decides that Rabbit needs a woman, and he introduces him to Ruth, a part-time prostitute. Following an argument with Janice, Rabbit looks up his old basketball coach Marty Tothero, who is now living in squalor. In Reading, Pennsylvania, former high school basketball star Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom is dissatisfied with both his failure to find a career and with his loveless marriage to Janice, an alcoholic who is pregnant with a child neither of them wants. Jack Eccles, and Henry Jones and Josephine Hutchinson as Rabbit's parents. The movie co-starred Jack Albertson as Coach Marty Tothero, Arthur Hill as Rev. The film starred James Caan as Rabbit Angstrom, Carrie Snodgress as Rabbit's wife Janice, and Anjanette Comer as his girlfriend Ruth. The film was adapted from John Updike's 1960 novel by screenplay writer Howard B. Rabbit, Run is a 1970 American independent drama film directed by Jack Smight. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most of his relationships (read: before he suddenly had a certain High Maintenance Consulting Detective in his life) ended on a good note and he was often on the Christmas card lists of his old girlfriends and many a woman has still thought fondly of “sweet, adorable Johnny” in the Way Back When. Once he hit puberty and discovered that girls were a lot more interesting than he’d previously thought, all bets were off. It guaranteed him pats on the head, pinches on the cheek, hugs and sweeties being offered by a doting mother, grandmothers, assorted aunts, cousins and even the neighbors. Watson has been able to charm the opposite sex even as a sweet, tow-headed little tyke. Certainly, he’s good-looking enough but hardly movie-star material. It’s not as if he’s handsome in a conventional sense. Watson got playfully tagged with the “Three Continents” monicker by his mates. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A sparkling chronicle, fine-tuned to the personal stories that lend texture and emotion to a biography.”- Kirkus Reviews dances with devilry, opulence and deception as Tudor court intrigue swirls around Henry VIII and his various queens. “Fox does a splendid job in conveying life at the top of the Tudor pyramid.”- USA Today ![]() In the eyes and ears of Jane Boleyn, we witness the myriad players of the stormy Tudor period, and Jane herself emerges as a courageous spirit, a modern woman forced by circumstances to make her own way in a privileged but vicious world. Drawing upon her own deep knowledge and years of original research, she brings us into the inner sanctum of court life, teeming with intrigue and redolent with the threat of disgrace. For centuries, little beyond rumor and scandal has been associated with “the infamous Lady Rochford,” but now historian Julia Fox sets the record straight. But the cost of her loyalty would eventually be her undoing and the ruination of her name. ![]() As powerful men and women around her became victims of Henry’s ruthless and absolute power–including her own husband and her sister-in-law, Queen Anne Boleyn–Jane’s allegiance to the volatile monarch was sustained and rewarded. In a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from relative obscurity to the inner circle of King Henry VIII. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book is full of half-heard snatches of conversation, shimmering snow and bruised flesh. As a young woman who suffered from extremely disturbing dreams there was comfort in the way Kavan gave my fright a shape and a beauty and did not try and explain anything away. ![]() ![]() The narrator’s hallucinations or dreams interrupt the text with no warning and nothing – not a single character – is given a name. Kavan makes such great assumptions of her reader that it is almost flattering how obscure, how ungenerous she is willing to be with her writing. It was so new to me, a sort of apocalyptic not-quite-science fiction that crackles with erotic violence and dread. I picked up the 1967 Picador edition of Ice with its image of a pale girl at the foot of a flight of stairs and read it breathlessly in a way that mostly eludes me now. I would read anything with a naked woman on the cover. My reading life began with my parents’ bookshelves. ![]() ![]() Still, I do absolutely love both genres, and it would be hard to think of giving them up for good. It's difficult to maintain a "younger" mindset for three hundred plus pages, and I always find myself a little more exhausted at the end of YA or middle-grade novel. When I write for a younger audience, I have to put myself in the mind of a twelve-year-old to sixteen-year-old and that can be challenging. That's a terrific question! Personally, I think that writing for adults is much easier than writing for the YA or middle-grade genre. ![]() Do you find writing for any particular audience is easier than others? You’ve written over 30 books for teens and kids, but also for adults. Holliday of the Ghost Hunter series, use their psychic gifts to gain insight and solve mysteries. We interviewed Victoria ahead of her Meet the Author event on Februand asked her about her writing, her experiences as a psychic, and the role libraries play in her life. Her characters, like Abigail Cooper from the Psychic Eye series and M. Her works of fiction for teens, kids, and adults are filled with mystery, suspense and the supernatural. Victoria Laurie is a New York Times bestselling author and professional psychic. ![]() ![]() " The Sentinel" – short story written in 1948 and first published in 1951 as "Sentinel of Eternity".Two of Clarke's early short stories have ties to the series. The second was made into a feature film, released in 1984, respectively. The first novel was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick's film version and published after the release of the film. ![]() The Space Odyssey series is a series of science fiction novels by the writer Arthur C.
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