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Apart from a kind of sybaritic utilitarianism, there is science to explain this yen for closets. Getting organized appears to lower stress and anxiety and increase efficiency. Sheila Jowsey, a professor of psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic, says, "Organization is comforting. It's soothing." How does this age of bigger and more luxurious closets bring about that kind of Zen? "We don't have the disposable time to go through our possessions and determine what we need, so it accumulates," Jowsey says. "What Americans do have is enough disposable income to tell somebody, 'Build...
...then to New York City's Museum of Modern Art. In keeping with the randomness that characterized Dada, the Pompidou has organized the show like a chessboard, making it easy to move through more than 40 rectangular exhibition spaces in no particular order. Thankfully, there are introductory rooms that explain the importance of Zurich, a neutral haven for European intellectuals from Carl Jung to Vladimir Lenin; discuss the Cabaret Voltaire, the local tavern where the Dadaists met for conversation, poetry and drama; and introduce Dada's large cast of characters through their portraits. These pictures, many of them photographs, bring...
...life, Shapiro focuses on Shakespeare in the year that the playwright turned 35. In fact, Shapiro devoted five years of his life to a single year of Shakespeare’s. Like a detective sifting through a historical paper trail, the Columbia scholar squeezed out connections that would explain what catalyzed this year of brilliant writing. Shapiro immersed himself in the world of Shakespeare by reading every book Shakespeare might have read during 1599. He paid special attention to unpublished materials such as letters, sermons, and diaries. He admits, “a good deal of what I make...
...those of you out there who aren’t regularly accused of music snobbery, congratulations for making it this far. Allow me to explain. For the past few years, Pitchforkmedia.com has been the reigning champ of online music criticism for that amorphous pseudo-genre we indulgently call “indie music”. Every weekday, their crack team of critics (including our very own indierati prince, Nick A. Sylvester ’04) post up news, reviews, interviews, and features, offering guidance to thousands of kids looking for their daily fix of interesting sounds...
...here in the first place—by finding that elusive balance between schoolwork and sleep, between dozens of extracurricular initiatives and a fulfilling social life? To be sure, the commitments we juggle now are significantly different from those that lie ahead. But the distinction does little to explain the observed double standard in ambition and levels of self-confidence. The only plausible explanation seems to be that the belief in a mandatory future of “either/or”—either a successful family or a successful career—has been instilled so thoroughly...