Have You Strayed From This Important Human Quality?
What would society look like if we did more of this?
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What would society look like if we did more of this?
The anecdotal takeaway: Better to encounter a mob of Indonesian adolescents on a dark street than their counterparts Down Under.
Leon Thomas Warmuth was born into the depression in 1933 near the town of San Joaquin California, not far from Fresno. His dad, Otto, was a share cropper. His mother, Leona, picked cotton. He was the fifth of six children and had three sisters and two brothers.
Harboring memories of fish smells, bruises from being banged up by waves and motion sickness Dramamine wouldn’t touch: Nope, can’t go on your boat.
℘℘℘ “I’ll take a funeral over a wedding any day,” declares John Patrick Shanley, 49, gleefully. The Bronx-born award-winning playwright, director and screenwriter, whose latest handiwork, Where’s My Money? was recently staged at New York’s City Center Theater, is quite vehement. “I think this is an area where I’m extremely Irish. The very concept of death is something that we Irish find cheerful and relaxing.” The mood description, cheerful and relaxed, seems to reflect his demeanor today as he sits in the theater’s bar area, dressed casually in a sea-green cotton shi...