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Life Begins at Forty is a 1932 American self-help book by Walter B. Pitkin. Written during a time of rapid increase in life expectancy (at the time of its publication American life expectancy at birth was around 60 and climbing fast, from being only at age 40 fifty years before), [ 1 ] it was very popular and influential.
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (also sometimes called "Daffodils" [2]) is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. [3] It is one of his most popular, and was inspired by an encounter on 15 April 1802 during a walk with his younger sister Dorothy, when they saw a "long belt" of daffodils on the shore of Ullswater in the English Lake District. [4]
Pitkin was a lecturer in philosophy and psychology at Columbia University (1905–09), and professor in the Columbia University School of Journalism (1912–43). [3]Pitkin authored more than 30 books over the course of his career, [2] including Life Begins at Forty (New York, Whittlesey house, McGraw-Hill, 1932) and The Psychology of Happiness.
They posed the question eight times over the 25-year period between 1911 and 1974, quizzing participants when they were anywhere from 40 to 100 years old. At age 65, those born in 1911 said, on ...
"The Life That I Have" was an original poem composed on Christmas Eve 1943 and was originally written by Marks in memory of his girlfriend Ruth, who had just died in a plane crash in Canada. [1] On 24 March 1944, the poem was issued by Marks to Violette Szabo , a British agent of Special Operations Executive who was eventually captured ...
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their family will be the face of the modern monarchy for decades to come.
Happiness Begins received generally positive reviews from music critics, who complimented the album's production and well-crafted pop sound. The Independent ' s Roisin O'Connor called it "the best pop comeback – and likely one of the best pop albums – of the year", writing that "this album contains the best songs the group has produced to ...
The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society (1764) is a philosophical poem by novelist Oliver Goldsmith. In heroic verse of an Augustan style it discusses the causes of happiness and unhappiness in nations. It was the work which first made Goldsmith's name, and is still considered a classic of mid-18th-century poetry.