Their minds, it seemed, their boldness, the lives they'd led, full of thinking and caring, devoid of indifference, habit, servility.
(Full disclosure: Thinking that a fresh set of eyes might be more charitable, I chose not to rereview "Ghost the Musical," which I had seen in London and heartily disliked).
When my friend and I were young and not very interesting, we spent virtually full time thinking and talking about ourselves (how we looked, how we should act, how we came across to people).
But the playing in general was passionately good, and the performance was a valuable reminder, in a week full of thinking about Mahler's legacy, that his works — self-aware yet sincere; eclectic and emotional — remain uncanny premonitions of our contemporary sensibilities.
So consider the second annual Long Island High School Ethics Bowl, held on Saturday, a form of contest among athletes of ethics — students from eight high schools who spent a full day thinking up a sweat over the blacks and whites and grays of right and wrong.
"Uh," I said, then looked at my shoes for a full minute, thinking about how I was failing the part of the exam only designed to ease me into the rest of the exam.
So why don't I just carry on with my life and let the worry-full thinking pass?
It turns out that theory is not all in their heads: There is real scientific evidence to support a positive attitude protecting your mind and body, says Fred Bryant, professor of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago -- and everyone can benefit from the glass-half-full thinking.
"How cool is that," Fuller recalled thinking as he watched the film in class.
