When the series reached its half-way mark I wrote a piece comparing Sir Kenneth's "Civilisation" to Clive Bell's essay – a line of thought which was pursued farther last week in a "Times" leading article – and it was not a happy comparison, although there have been so few stabs at getting down to a definition of civilisation that the "Times" leader-writer and I are perhaps not to be blamed.
"But looking at my Valley (Silicon vs. Happy) comparison, the raw brain power is here, as it is in other major research university towns, and it's coupled with incredibly low costs and a high quality of life.
But Galen also suggested the "Happy Days" comparison is correct, in that there's no un-jumping the shark of the government shutdown.
"Spin the Bottle" is about six friends (let the "Friends," "How I Met Your Mother" and "Happy Endings" comparisons commence) who spout love and dating advice to one another while drinking.
Lee was not happy with the comparison.
The film's title, a slang term that likens the situation in the midwestern American city to the war in Iraq, has caused controversy, with Mayor Rahm Emanuel telling Lee he "wasn't happy" with the comparison.
Well, Nokia sure must happy with that comparison.
He wasn't too happy with the comparison, and preferred to emphasise the fast that they had a lot of upscale users – not, I inferred, the great unwashed of mass-market Tripit.
Not surprisingly Moore's critics were not happy with this comparison, but it was not until the formulation of the 'adverbial' theory of experience by Ducasse in the 1940's, according to which someone who has a sensation of blue is someone who 'senses bluely', that there was a reasonably robust response to Moore's criticism.
This story of a group of disadvantaged but talented young men from the same neighborhood fighting their way out of straitened circumstances to international pop music stardom has in outline a lot in common with the saga of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons as related in "Jersey Boys" — though partisans of neither project will be happy with the comparison.
Jonathan Swift writes: "Happiest, beyond all comparison, are those excellent Struldbrugs, who, being born exempt from that universal calamity of human nature, have their minds free and disengaged, without the weight and depression of spirits caused by the continual apprehensions of death!" The thing is, though, that eternal life is not all it's cracked up to be.
