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This chapter draws on Beckett’s Happy Days production notebooks to argue against critical assessments of Winnie as an exemplar of British pluck. Rather, the domestic rituals she performs serve to distract her from ever-encroaching entropy. Read in queer time, as chrononormative regulators, Winnie’s rituals are recast as coping mechanisms that help to normalise her abnormal situation. Happy Days thus challenges prevailing understandings of the politics of queer time, queer failure, and performance. Happy Days is read historically as a response to late capitalism’s regulatory regimes. Winnie’s queer experience of time is the audience’s, too, and her failures implicate them in their own attachments to deadening routine. Winnie’s performance of internalised discipline models (and critiques) how commodity culture deadens existence, but also how theatre as spectacle normalises suffering.

In the last 40 years, the pace of productivity gains has been muted. The computer revolution delivered a boost in the 1990s and 2000s. But relative to the game-changing technologies of the early 20th century, the impact was limited. Looking ahead, optimists see enormous potential in technologies like artificial intelligence. Pessimists view the same technologies as offering only peripheral improvements. “Hard Times, Happy Days, and Electric Sheep” maps the connection between productivity change and the natural rate of interest and sets out alternative forecasts based on optimistic, pessimistic, and dystopian paths for the evolution of technology.

WHEN VIEWING BECKETI'S PLAYS IN chronological order, one notices that the characters' mobility and the impact of natural lights tend to decrease. This points not only to a diminuendo of dramatic illusion and realism but also to a gradual moving towards the zone where death impinges on life. Hamm, Clov, Nell and Nagg are more severely handicapped than Vladimir and Estragon, or even than Pozzo and Lucky during the second act of Godot. Hamm of Endgame can be moved around in his wheelchair whereas Winnie of Happy Days is buried up to her waist in Act I, up to her neck in Act II. In Play only the heads of the three nameless characters M, WI and W2 emerge from the urns which suggest death even more than the scorched land of Happy Days.

We report two patients with markedly elevated 24-h urine 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) excretion due to over-the-counter (OTC) self-medication with 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP). It is important to recognize that OTC medication may cause increased 'false-positive' 5-HIAA excretion to prevent undue patient anxiety and unnecessary further investigation for carcinoid disease. Discordance between chromogranin A and 24-h urine 5-HIAA results should alert to the possibility of false-positive or -negative laboratory results.

What differentiates a happy day from a typical one? Using interpretable machine learning techniques, we assessed the relationship between the time people spent on over 100 activities and whether they rated their day as typical or “better than typical” in the 2013 (n = 9,286) and 2021 (n = 6,196) waves of the American Time Use Survey. Our random forest models identified better than typical (vs. typical) days with accuracy levels substantially above chance (i.e. 62–63% balanced accuracy across 2013 and 2021). Socializing was one of the activities most strongly linked to the probability of having a good day, but beyond 2 hours, additional socializing was not associated with further increases in the probability of reporting a better than typical day. Working for up to 6 hours was not related to whether people rated their day as better than usual; beyond 6 hours, however, additional work was associated with sharp declines in the probability of having a good day. While the present results are descriptive in nature, they provide insight into the rhythms and routines that characterize happy days.

Hazlitt’s judgement that George Crabbe was an enemy of the imagination epitomizes contemporary opinions about the lack of musing, amusement, and pleasure in Crabbe’s verse. In the Preface to Tales (1812), Crabbe effectively confirms those judgements by defending his interest in ‘the painful realities of actual existence’ rather than the ‘fairy-land’ of ‘fancy’. In his late poem, ‘Silford Hall; or, The Happy Day’ (composed c. 1822–1824), however, the struggle between matter-of-factness and reverie is less decidedly resolved than Hazlitt—and Crabbe himself—liked to suggest. Silford Hall is modelled on Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire (the home of Crabbe’s patrons, the Dukes of Rutland), a place the poet visited repeatedly—in imagination and in reality—for over five decades. Taking account of a draft ending that was detached from the main body of the poem printed in Posthumous Tales (1834), the essay traces allusions to Johnson’s Rasselas as a means of understanding Crabbe’s emphasis on dwelling, revisiting, and retrospection. It shows how those processes engender a tussle between the perspectives of enchanted youth and disillusioned age, making ‘Silford Hall’ a more complex mode of place-writing than Crabbe had attempted previously. Unseen by his critics, the poem catches Crabbe disavowing flights of imaginative fancy while acknowledging their part in the history of his poetic maturation.

Our newspaper published M. Kvasnetskaia's review, "Monday 'Will Be a Happy Day" [Ponedel'nik'budet schastlivym]. It was about the film by S. Rostotskii and G. Polonskii, "We'll Survive Till Monday" [Dozhivem do ponedel'nika]. Within a few days, letters to the editors started coming in. Were they responses to the review? Discussions of the new film? Yes. But our correspondents did not confine themselves to this. Almost every new reaction to the film turned out to be a serious reflection upon life. The film, which focused on the microcosm of school, forced the viewers to ponder the most crucial problems — moral, civic, and social. The seemingly modest "school film" provided the opportunity for thought about vocations, one's place in life, responsibility for the work one is engaged in, the right to be treated with understanding.

Science EducationVolume 43, Issue 1 p. 84-84 Book Review Hallock, Grace T., Allen, Ross L., and Thomas, Eleanor. Health and happy days and Health in work and play.Boston (statler building) : Ginn and company, 1954. 127 p. and 160 p. $1.40 and $1.52. First published: February 1959 https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.3730430131AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume43, Issue1February 1959Pages 84-84 RelatedInformation

The sonnet which is originated in Italy is a highly structured poetic form. It flourishes in the Elizabethan period in order to write love sonnets about a beloved and idealized lady. This study focuses on the theme of time in both Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti and Epithalamion, and William Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Spenser’s Amoretti, which covers New Year’s Day celebrations, reflects on Spenser’s past forty-one years of life. In Epithalamion, Spenser records the hours of the day from pre-dawn to wedding night, including the passage of a year in 365 long lines which also correspond to days in a year. Its content moves from the excitement of youth to the anxieties of the middle age, beginning with high hopes for a happy day and ending with record of the speaker’s legacy for future generations. Spenser tries to prevent the passage of time by freezing it in his verses. Shakespeare’s Sonnets begins with the narrator’s begging the fair lord to find a woman who will bear his child so that his beauty can be assured for posterity. The poet complains about the ravages of time and its harmful effects on the beauty of the fair lord, and tries to fight the inevitable by forcing the fair lord to convey his perfection to a child. The poet defines time as a dimension of suffering, and asks the fair lord to leave him. In conclusion, time is described as unmanageable power of unforeseen changes and chances as well as a non-personal ominous determinant.

In this chapter, Yoshiki Tajiri focuses on the connection between trauma and everyday life: a traumatised subject needs to come to terms with everyday life and can find ordinary objects in it unexpectedly significant. By discussing such aspects of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days, this chapter will illuminate the ways in which trauma and ordinary life are correlated rather than opposed. It also demonstrates that trauma theory and everyday life studies can stimulate each other: trauma is far from an everyday phenomenon, but it can shed light on the nature of everyday life after calamities of modernity as in the cases of Woolf and Beckett; conversely, there may be ways of enriching trauma studies by incorporating reflections on everyday life.

Cases  Materials on the Carriage of Goods by Sea includes a collection of legislative material, standard form contracts and up-to-date coverage of English case law. It covers the major areas of chartering and bills of lading, as well as matters such as exclusion and limitation of liability. This edition has been comprehensively updated and adds the latest cases to its strong coverage of classic authorities. Notable additions in the chapters dealing with bills of lading include The Starsin, The Rafaela S, Motis Exports and The David Agmashenebeli. On the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1992, the important decisions of The Berge Sisar and East West Corp are incorporated, while key recent decisions on chartering, such as The Hill Harmony, The Happy Day and The Stolt Spur are fully treated. This book provides an up-to-date collection of materials relating to the carriage of goods by sea which will be of value to both students of law and legal practitioners.

Happy Days and the Civilian Conservation Corps in South Carolina, 1933–1942

16 Historically Speaking January/February 2008 whites-only suburbs exemplars of a depoliticized Happy Days? You get the idea. The struggle for racial justice burned across the post-World War II years. And that struggle goes a long way toward explaining how political activism of all kinds became an ever greater presence in the United States from the end of World War II right through the early 1970s. Without the struggle for racial justice and the models of political practice, resistance , and rebellion it produced in its many variants across racial and ethnic lines, the other political movements and modes of contentious politics of the era would have looked very different and likely would never have gained the kind of political and cultural traction they did achieve. Black Americans don't fit the Fifties imagery popular accounts tend to present—or that Whitfield outlines. If black Americans' experiences are taken seriously, the Fifties take on a different hue. And as historians place black Americans' presence in the post-World War II years more centrally, they should have a much easier time understanding how contemporary mass-media notions of the Fifties tell us more about how a certain kind of social order was culturally cast than about how Americans actually lived and experienced the era. Throughout the early Cold War years, black Americans found powerful ways to make their presence felt in die United States. They and their allies were able to break the racial order whites had cast in the decades following Reconstruction . That break had major cultural and social implications and it caused massive changes in American public policy. Americans' domestic struggles over racial justice were given political urgency and new cultural saliency by that other great postwar cause: the battle to address the communist challenge. That battle produced concerns about national identity that made racial injustice a more salient issue for political elites. But it also produced hot wars, internal hunts for subversives and spies, massive increases in the federal government's power and capacity, and a political struggle to define America's role in the world. As people in the United States and in most other nation -states around the world worked their ways through the new international Cold War order, factions in most every nation began to challenge the people, precepts, and policies that maintained and developed that order and the particular form the Cold War state took in their respective societies. Even the Soviet Union, with its barbarous Stalinist and brutal post-Stalinist internal political organization , had its factional disputes and cultural forms of resistance to the obduracy of its Cold War state. Given America's central role in the making, maintaining, and developing of that Cold War international order, Americans' relative unfamiliarity with the demands of a powerful domestic security state, and Americans' freewheeling, democratic political culture, it makes sense that Americans responded passionately and in great numbers to the demands of the Cold War. And those responses, it is worth remembering, did not begin with the Left's challenges to the Vietnam War. The John Birch Society, founded in 1 958, almost surely had more members than SDS ever did. Birchers met in small chapters all over the United States, petitioning, protesting, and organizing to impeach Earl Warren and challenge the patriotism of President Eisenhower and then Kennedy and Johnson. More direcdy, and successfully , they took on school boards and other local officials who failed to attack communism. Birchers were joined in their activism by myriad other selfidentified anticommunist grass roots activists. The Cold War produced an angry, highly organized, grassroots Right in the Fifties, and as numerous recent historians have recognized, those Rightists did not disappear in the Sixties—they regrouped and rethought their political practices (ironically, Leftists would do much the same in the 1970s—a topic for another day). The political ferment created by the frustrations, fears, and hopes of the Cold War clearly took on new shape and politicized new people as the war in Vietnam evolved differendy than had the civil war in China and the UN police action in Korea. And, yes, generational politics fueled by demographics and a host of other critical factors—some of which...

To reproduce successfully, all organisms from bacteria to man must survive the attacks of the myriad of parasites that would otherwise produce fatal episodes of disease and premature death. This is particularly true for long-lived species that require many years to reach reproductive maturity and, presumably, that are required to resist multiple episodes of parasitic infection prior to that happy day. Parasites are species that draw their food resources from the live bodies of a host species and that spend much or all of their life in association with that host species. Typically damage is done to the host by the parasite, resulting in a condition of pathogenesis and disease. Parasites may be unicellular or multicellular, prokaryote, eukaryote, or virus.

Danny El-Nachef: Worldly Perspectives for the Heart.