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...disruptions in the classroom, and to recommend punishment for these actions. The pranks committed by the Lampoon, final clubs, and now the Strategic Offense Society (SOS) inject humor into often boring lectures. In fact, the SOS stunt in Government 1091 gave students of all political persuasions an occasion to laugh. The staff, as students, should leave whining about punishing students for violations of University guidelines to grouchy professors and administrators...
...their emotional life, to help them achieve their goals." But, he adds, "what I would oppose is training conformity to social expectations." The danger is that any campaign to hone emotional skills in children will end up teaching that there is a "right" emotional response for any given situation--laugh at parades, cry at funerals, sit still at church. "You can teach self-control," says Dr. Alvin Poussaint, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. "You can teach that it's better to talk out your anger and not use violence. But is it good emotional intelligence not to challenge...
...fast food, everything on their burger is small and in the center and it is clean. When I go to Burger King or Wendy's, there is always that danger of having a tomato or union fall out of the burger and getting on you." Mayberry adds with a laugh...
...somehow Diane Keaton, directing her first fictional feature, gets us safely through a movie that could have turned to mush at any moment. She knows how to touch on an emotion without squeezing every last tear out of it. She knows how to get a laugh without bringing down the whole fragile edifice of her film. She is helped a lot by a terrific cast, which understands that playing madness is very serious business, and by Richard LaGravenese's wonderfully modulated script. From The Fisher King through A Little Princess and The Bridges of Madison County, he has demonstrated...
...have to laugh at the way Seles has reclaimed her game and her life. When asked for a substitute for her favorite word, "wow!" Seles said, "I don't know. How about ecstatical?" Sounds good...