Charlie Rose

lifestudy  12/15/2011 04:06 AM Report

CR is one of the (few) joys of television but sometimes out of his depth, struggling to keep it going, interupting the flow of the guest at key moments, and the guest at sea as a result...

SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/15/2011 01:47 AM Report

He says that straight anger is a boring emotion so he is more interested in remorse and regret.

Some researchers have noted anger is, in some ways, more like a positive emotion than a negative one because anger can make us feel bigger, stronger, and more capable. Thus, it is not surprising that people find it easier to deal with anger than to deal with sadness, guilt, anxiety and other negative emotions.

So he is wise to find the nuance because anger is only entertaining for a short time.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/15/2011 01:41 AM Report

Charlie, you almost lost him when you asked him: how do you act? (He had been asked this countless times.)

Good thing you brought him back with a laugh because the trigger point almost went off.

REMant  12/14/2011 12:30 PM Report

You could compare the situation of Shakespeare's iambi to music, particularly jazz, which is usually either two-four or four-four, but rarely beat out mechanically, even by Count Basie. Indeed, I imagine the poetry is supposed to be musical, starting out that way in ancient Greece with the choruses, tho exactly why seems to be still a matter of conjecture. Perhaps more easily remembered, like a Broadway show-stopper or popular song. Still, one can't easily see that here except in some obvious cases: "The quality of mercy is not strain'd," "To-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow" etc. But then I have a hard time understanding why Byron, Pope, Milton, et al, felt they had to write gigantic odes to this and that, or why we make a big deal out of alliteration and such, but I feel it must have something to do with the way we organize and remember things, words being noises as much as symbols.