![]() As I make my way from Iceland (one of the world’s happiest countries) to Bhutan (where the king has made Gross National Happiness a national priority) to Moldova (not a happy place), I call upon the collective wisdom of “the self-help industrial complex” to help navigate the path to contentment. Using the ancient philosophers and the much more recent “science of happiness” as my guide, I travel the world in search of the happiest places and what we can learn from them. But for The Geography of Bliss, I decided to tell the other side of the story by visiting some of the world’s most contented places. It is all of those things, and more.įor years, as a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, I covered a multitude of catastrophes, natural and man-made. ![]() I like to think of it as a philosophical humorous travel memoir. ![]() The Geography of Bliss is a tough book to nail down. ![]()
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Knussen also included a number of musical quotations, including Debussy's La boîte à joujoux and the bell motif from the coronation scene of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. ![]() In form and subject matter the work relates to Maurice Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges, as well as Stravinsky's The Nightingale. Knussen composed the music from 1979 to 1983, on commission from the Opèra National, Brussels. 20, is a fantasy opera in one act, nine scenes, by Oliver Knussen to a libretto by Maurice Sendak, based on Sendak's own 1963 children's book of the same title. ![]() ![]() ![]() In true Blue Blood fashion, the ball is totally fab, complete with masks-and hidden behind this masquerade is a revelation that will change the course of a young vampire's destiny. ![]() What secrets are the leaders of The Committee hiding? Meanwhile, back in New York, preparations are feverishly underway for the famous Four Hundred Ball. 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