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...Sally Farber, the protagonist of Lisa Grunwald's novel Whatever Makes You Happy (Random House; 238 pages), notes, quarrels about what anger means, or sadness, or envy. "But happiness is-it's-a shimmer." Farber, 40, has had no trouble writing books on The History of Anger, The History of Jealousy and even The History of Love, but she's hung up on writing the biography of happiness. Two kids running into the bedroom "like bright, sharp arrows," a "tidy, perfect, kitchen drawer" of a husband plus a book contract, and still, for Sally, happiness lies around the corner...
...Farber decides early on that happiness is a matter of temperament, not circumstance. It "has less to do with what people have than with what they think they want," she says. After all, for much of history, happiness as an end in itself has been as strange a notion as suffering as an end in itself. Then why is happiness so much harder to access than simple depression...
...that makes the disease so frightening, along with the uncertainty of nearly everything else about it. Despite the progress in medical research so far, huge questions remain about its origin and fundamental nature. In trying to understand AIDS, says Dr. William Haseltine, a leading investigator at Harvard's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, "we have moved from being explorers in a canoe to explorers with a small sail on the vast sea of what we do not know...
...Alex Comfort's More Joy of Sex, which compared sexual jealousy to carrying on "like a backward five-year-old who sees another child with his tricycle." He solemnly advised readers to be proud of having a mate that others wish to sleep with. To the late psychoanalyst Leslie Farber, this view of jealousy was an attempt by pained sexual revolutionaries to conjure up invulnerability by declaring the pain invalid. Though the sexual revolution has fallen on hard times, some still agree with its alarmist view of jealousy. Manhattan Psychiatrist Robert Gould told Friday, "Jealousy has its roots in unhealthy...
...returning marathoner, is also hoping to improve. “Last year it was really hot so my time wasn’t really good, and I wanted to prove I could do a marathon better.” There is also the external motivation of helping the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge raise money for cancer research, she said...