Whit Stillman is an American filmmaker whose four films are comedic investigations of class triumphs and tragedies, explored through the lens of
group social life.
To our attitudes towards and practice of friendship and
group social life and, especially, eros.
There is plenty to say about how that break heralded sexual and expressive individualism, but in light of the LAST DAYS interest in the tensions between «
group social life» and «ferocious pairing off,» we should also compare the dominance of couple - centered dances from the waltz -LRB-?)
All this is linked at the hip with the fact that his films are consistently for the couple and
group social life.
Not exact matches
But to become a can't -
live - without tool, an assistant «needs to be interesting enough to add to a
group conversation,» says Lili Cheng, general manager of Microsoft's Future
Social Experiences labs.
«The researchers found that «musical reactivity is causally related to... basic
social motivations» and that «reactivity to music is related to markers of successful
group living.»
CHARITY
group Dine for
Life, which raises money from diners for a range
social and humanitarian causes, is taking its Perth fund - raising expertise to the eastern states.
«One of the most interesting aspects of Instagram is that it's not really a «site,» but
lives almost purely on mobile,» Jeff Peters,
social media specialist at The Halo
Group, said in a news release.
There is a real opportunity to connect more of us with
groups that will be meaningful
social infrastructure in our
lives.
According to a 2013 study by the
social action
group Center for American Progress, if the undocumented immigrants currently
living in the United States were provided legal status, the 10 - year cumulative increase in the gross domestic product (GDP) would be $ 832 billion.
A
social network that promotes healthier
living through
group support and motivation attracts a $ 5 million VC investment.
If everyone in your
social group lives in a big house and drives a Range Rover, and you
live in a two - bedroom and drive a»97 Camry, I imagine you get a lot of strange looks and miss out on invites to champagne - soaked bacchanals.
She soon created her own Young
Living user brand (the Lemon Droppers) and a Facebook
group, where she posted educational videos of how to use Young
Living products and how to leverage
social media to run a Young
Living team.
I
lived in what I considered one of the greatest cities in the world — Vancouver, British Columbia — where I worked as a senior marketing executive at a restaurant
group, earning a great salary that afforded me an active
social life, overpriced lattes and other little luxuries.
He is a Director of Carillon Assisted
Living, LLC; Lincoln Peak Holdings, LLC; OASIS
Group Ltd.; QMC International, LLC; ZircoDATA; a Trustee of The Stanford Business School Trust; WGBH; the College of the Atlantic (Chair); and a founding partner at FARM, a
social impact investing collaborative.
Dan Dzombak: Taking
Social Security at 62 is smart if you do not expect to
live to your age
group's
life expectancy.
This is in part because people often self - select into undergraduate and graduate programs that have
social groups with interests closely aligned to their own, which generates both a higher level of interaction and longer -
lived relationships.
«Tribalism,» as he defines it, is «the commitment of individuals and
groups to their own history, culture, and identity, and this commitment (though not any particular version of it) is a permanent feature of human
social life.»
Once this congregation was
group of German immigrants
living in what was then farmland across the river from New York City» that was over a hundred years ago» and the primary goal seemed simply to keep the struggling congregation from folding, at another time the chief task seemed racial integration, at another outreach into the community, at another service to the community and
social action, at another learning to worship God in Spanish.
Last night Yale's campus pro-life
group — after a year in which they participated in meetings and even helped raise money for the organization — became the first
group in
living memory to be denied membership in the
Social Justice Network of Dwight Hall.
It continues: «All of these things could make
life difficult because society disenfranchises people who fit into those
social groups.
Revolutionary structures, he adds, can not serve this design except by providing occasion for each
social group to participate more fully in shaping the community's economic and national
life.
Thus there is a remarkable congruence among the three levels of bodied experience — personal,
social, and cosmic — that a
group identifies as systems within which
life occurs.
Having seen an Arab chieftain's son, who had attended the American University in Beirut, make his decision between the old nomadic
life of his clan, still
living in tents, and the new town
life which his education made possible, one vividly understands that, choosing the former, he inevitably chose submergence in the
social solidarity of his
group as against emergence into the individualism of a commercial community.
However, unless that vision is rooted in the sacramental and liturgical realities it proclaims, and in a personal
life of the spirit, and unless that formation is translated into action in the moral and
social life of the individuals and
group, there will be little or no harvest.
From the far distant past right up until the twentieth century, humankind showed a tendency to divide and diversify into ever more ethnic
groups, all of them retaining the tribal type of
social life.
I speak throughout Canada and internationally to churches, conferences, women's
groups, universities, and workshops on topics ranging from spiritual formation, a sacramental view of
living, being a Christian feminist, the ways that we can navigate change throughout our faith journey, the embrace of ancient church practices as a charismatic Christian, writing,
social justice, and many other topics.
Halfway houses (where small
groups of patients who are not ready to return to their homes
live together and receive help in
social rehabilitation), day hospitals, foster home services, rehabilitation centers, and ex-patient clubs are still in short supply in all parts of our country.
Instead of being a passing phase of the
social group, individual, personal
life was progressively gaining a distinct and profound value of its own, and the higher personality thus rose in ideal, the farther it could fall by comparison.
Selfhelp
groups (A.A. and others), without trained leaders, achieve rates of
social recoveries (restoration to constructive
living) which probably surpass those of professionally staffed therapies.
In addition to these
groups, the church can also provide
group social relations to persons who are exposed to particular
life stresses which make them emotionally vulnerable.
But I also care deeply about preserving a pluralistic
social order, where individuals and
groups have the opportunity to
live out their deepest convictions — however disagreeable to people like me — within a framework of a shared commitment to the common good.
Most normal, sane people would * always * put their children before even their own
lives, never mind
social pressure
groups like churches.
With a common ideological foundation» the American Way of
Life» underlying each
social group, the three
groups could then properly contest for society's rewards.
Traditional India had been a land in which peoples and communal
groups who followed different religions,
lived according to different cultural values and
social patterns and spoke different languages, coexisted.
The «communal tensions» between the
groups were «of major importance in the
life of the nation,» Herberg added, suggesting that they began non-divisive discussions about the limits of American democracy and allowed all 96 percent of Americans who identified as Protestant, Catholic, or Jew to have some
social, political, and cultural recognition in America.
The problem is many Christians want to think it's been defined by their god but all
social animals, from ants to elephants, have modified their behaviors, by restraining selfishness in order to make
group living worthwhile.
Furthermore, today children are more likely than people of any other age
group to
live in poverty, and, as Mintz explains in such excellent detail, it has always been true that when children
live in poverty both their physical and
social needs are apt to go unmet.
Not only did he donate $ 1.5 million to Black
Lives Matter and other
social justice
groups last year, but he's become an outspoken advocate for criminal justice reform.
When my wife and I moved to Pasadena, California, we joined a
group of well - educated couples who were meeting in a local Baptist church on Sunday mornings for a freewheeling discussion of
life,
social issues and various cultural challenges to the Christian faith.
Of all varieties of
social life and
grouping within a given society, religious associations of a peculiar and not of the traditional type will arrest the attention of the student.
No doubt for some
groups and in some areas of
social life there was genuinely open competition and opportunity.
William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (Boston: Gorham Press, 1918 - 20); cf. Herbert Blumer, An Appraisal of Thomas» «The Polish Peasant in Europe and America» (New York:
Social Science Research Council, 1939); Ellsworth Faris, «The Sect and the Sectarian,» in The Nature of Human Nature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938); Liston Pope, Millhands and Preachers, A Study of Gastonia (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1940); Raymond J. Jones, A Comparative Study of Civil Behavior Among Negroes (Washington: Howard University, 1939); Arthur H. Fauset, Black Gods of the Metropolis (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1944); J. F. C. Wright, Slava Boku, The Story of the Dukhobors (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1940); Ephraim Ericksen, The Psychological and Ethical Aspects of Mormon
Group Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1922); Edward Jones Allen, The Second United Order among Mormons (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936); Robert Henry Murray,
Group Movements Through the Ages (New York: Harper & Bros., 1935); David Ludlum,
Social Ferment in Vermont, Columbia Studies in American Culture, No. 5 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939).
Living social thinking only comes to a person when he really
lives with men, when he does not remain a stranger to its
group structures or entirely outside its mass movements.
Feminism challenges the legitimacy of sex roles Along with other
social movements, feminism is rooted in the critique that a society so constructed that certain people and
groups profit from inequalities — between men and women, rich and poor, black and white, etc. — is a society in which money is more highly valued than love, justice, and human
life itself.
Having grown up with the
life of a
social - religious
group, and bearing its stamp all through, it can be adequately understood only in relation to that
group -
life in its changing phases, including the
life of the Christian Church down the centuries and in the present age.
Community
groups such as SPUC,
LIFE and the Good Counsel Network are some of the agencies who provide alternatives to abortion including
social, material, psychological and spiritual support for the woman during pregnancy and afterwards.
There emerge types of religious leaders — whose
lives the historian has illumined, whose intellectual and emotional makeup the psychologist has investigated, and whose
social role the sociologist has explored — as well as types of religious
groupings and religious institutions.
All religions are, to be sure,
social in character; if they do not incarnate in some specific
social group and give guidance about
living in community, they dissipate.
Niebuhr said that modern culture too easily assumes that the level of sanctification in the
life of the individual can be regarded as a simple possibility for
social groups.