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At this point in the classic parenting essay, I describe how I sat down with my son and told him that I know it hurts, that it was all right to say it hurts and that he didn't have to try to be cheerful about how terrible it all was right now, and that made everything better.
None was revolutionary but all three made me feel quite cheerful about how far we've come since 1997, when the new Labour women were dismissed either as robotic "Stepford Wives" or basically unserious, and the few Tory women looked on enviously because their own party wouldn't countenance measures to boost their numbers.
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Oz offers some cheerful hopes about how nothing is "irreversible" and dramatic change is always possible.
I answered such an email this morning, to a third grade class in Ohio, sending along cheerful speculations about how he was probably still alive and wandering around the Rockies.
"As if there were anything to be cheerful about".
What does that leave us to be cheerful about?
Not even the optimistic Professor Pinker could find much to be cheerful about in that.
Have you ever noticed that the guy who always seems happy and cheerful seems to have more things to be happy and cheerful about?
Holding my briefcase in one hand and my bag in the other, I jumped into the ocean and trudged ashore, trying to stay cheerful while thinking about how to redeem myself.
Then, after Ortiz's flyout, Fox cut to the Red Sox bench where Royce Clayton, who was wired for Fox, and Coco Crisp (their combined 2007 salary: $5.3 million), engaged in 40 seconds of taped, unprompted, cheerful chit-chat about how to get those tasty freebies.
In the case of happiness, it is plausible that even current measures provide information about how anxious, cheerful, satisfied, etc. people are, and thus tell us something about their happiness.
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