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Amory, who would become a famous author, was hired as a “tutor” by Zinsser’s parents while they took his older sisters on a European tour “I was born into the Northeastern WASP establishment and have never quite stopped pretending that I wasn’t. My boyhood was spent in a big house on the north shore of Long Island that overlooked the water and had its own tennis court. But I always wanted to get beyond that narrow world. In the summer of 1936, when I was 13, my parents took my older sisters on a Grand Tour of Europe, leaving me with my grandmother. Alan Watts Podcast. StoryWorksLA. Keep Grinding: 8 Thoughts You Need To Stop Having To Stay Motivated. It’s easy to be addicted to motivational crack: the pictures, quotes, videos and books that all promise to help us make the change in our lives we’re all dying to make.
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Courtesy of Fahey/Klein Gallery. Joel Dinerstein has whittled down the definition of “cool”: a person who shows a “relaxed intensity.” Together with co-curator Frank Goodyear III, Dinerstein is responsible for the “American Cool” exhibit on view at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington through Sept. 7. The exhibit represents, through portraiture, people whose relaxed intensity has made them icons of cool within their generations. Dinerstein, the director of the American studies program at Tulane University and a scholar, lecturer, and author of the concept of cool, sought to curate an exhibit that displayed who, rather than what, has defined “cool,” a term originally coined by black jazz musicians in the 1940s. Dinerstein stressed that the idea was to create an intellectual foundation that was a more objective platform about cool as opposed to the often subjective definition from which cool is typically examined.
You're a Grownup, You Should Know How to Fix These Things. By Jules Suzdaltsev Chances are great that you’re probably living in a relatively decrepit building built by a generation that knew how to change a light bulb without Googling it.
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