One, "Double Feature," by the musical-comedy director/choreographer Susan Stroman, was good, or the first part of it was: a Cinderella story based on silent-movie tearjerkers, set to an orchestration of Irving Berlin songs, and demonstrating all of Stroman's happy mastery of old theatrical conventions.
In England Anderson, a swing bowler at the peak of his powers, is one of life's shiny, happy people, his mastery of his craft now almost taken for granted.
All else follows from this; and this is why, even at a time of unprecedented technological mastery, people are still no happier than they ever were.
Since we have touched a little on Krautrock, it's worth noting that all those happy-go-lucky Germans used filler with a mastery that's virtually unparalleled in any other genre.
People in the workshop said that if they put digital awareness to work in their lives they would feel greater self-respect, more at ease, happier, more open to possibilities, less anxious, more mastery, and greater self-alignment with values.
But, from later that year, "Baby," a grisaille painting of a photograph of a happy infant, in acrylic on Celotex, explodes with aesthetic mastery and prescience.
"A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
Overindulgence at its best turns us into "happy idiots" and at its worst, drags us down into decadence, hedonism, and a failure of self-mastery that he scorned as the ugly side of humanity.
Lawyers are like everyone else in terms of what they need to feel satisfied and happy at work, but their training can interfere with their capacity to meet these needs of autonomy, connection and mastery.
Some mastery, some inaction!
I experienced his mastery.
