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Daily Archives: March 31st, 2010

How Do Men Concentrate?

  ELIZABETH WRIGHT WRITES: Laura wrote in the previous entry on women’s fashions: “Most women feel the gaze of others on their exposed cleavage. It’s distracting. I don’t know how these women on television concentrate.” How the women concentrate? I don’t know how the men concentrate. I’ve watched as a woman being interviewed by a [...]

A Man and Woman Dancing

                    ALEX A. from England writes: Here’s an item concerning a traditional interpretation of dancing that might interest you. My source is The Book of the Governor, a sixteenth century guidebook to the acquisition of social graces. It was written by Sir Thomas Elyot and first [...]

A Miscellany on Goats, News Anxiety Disorder, and How Colleges Destroy Happiness

  HERE, IN a miscellaneous entry, are questions from readers from the last few days. Lisa writes: As my daughter and I were in the goat barn for many hours this past few days after nearly all our milking does “decided” to have their kids all at once, I looked around in amused amazement at all these gals’ [...]