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Many years ago, Max Eastman wrote a book called "Enjoyment of Laughter" that completely ignored White's advice.
Eastman, who had enjoyed success with an earlier volume called "Enjoyment of Poetry," sought to explain jokes and laughter to the general reader.
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One is interference with what is called quiet enjoyment of one's property, a common-law right with ancient roots; the Diehls' dispute with the church is an example.
More recent attention has focused on perceived playfulness (PP, also called perceived enjoyment) as a determinant of usage behavior.
To account for it, one should introduce the distinction between pleasure and enjoyment elaborated by the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan: what Lacan calls jouissance (enjoyment) is a deadly excess beyond pleasure, which is by definition moderate.
Mentoring students calls for enjoyment in educating others as well as the ability to act as a role model and instill enthusiasm for a particular field of medicine or research.
In those same couple of weeks pre-holiday, Yale e360 published a great story about a big utility CEO, NRG's David Crane, and his compelling, reality-based case for green energy and electric cars (he also, much to my great enjoyment, called those who say they don't believe climate change liars).
And the so-called "enjoyment" does not come easy.
Data selects his next joke based on this feedback, in order to maximize the so-called enjoyment score.
- MA, London A You are entitled to what the law calls the quiet enjoyment of your property.
Their homecoming happened to coincide with Seollal, the Korean New Year, which traditionally calls for the enjoyment of sweet ddeok, a celebratory rice cake.
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