But can this elevation only happen with stories of kindness? Must the rest of the news abandon us to despair?The world is asking us to consider that question deeply. She defined kindness and heroism as “moral beauty,” which “triggers ‘elevation’ – a positive and uplifting feeling” that “acts as an emotional reset button, replacing feelings of cynicism with hope, love and optimism.”The study suggested this happens when one watches a news story about kindness after watching ones about bombings, cruelty, and violence. They support “the belief that the world and people in it are good.” And they provide “relief to the pain we experience when we see others suffering.”It was her fourth point that stuck with me. Navy built a barge solely devoted to manufacturing and distributing ice cream to service members.A week ago, a British researcher published an article titled “Stories of kindness may counteract the negative effects of looking at bad news.” As you might imagine, I was intrigued.Kathryn Buchanan of the University of Essex shared four main takeaways from her research: Stories of kindness remind us of our shared values. She weaves facts from the history of ice cream into her fictional story, such as how one ice cream maker came up with the bright idea to serve ice cream soft instead of hard, from a fixed-location store rather than a roving truck, after one hot day when his truck broke down, and how during World War II the U.S. Moving back and forth between the 1980s, when Lillian is on trial for tax evasion, and the decades before that, Gilman concocts a rich confection.
When he learns that Malka’s mother has refused to take her back from the hospital because she’s now “a cripple,” Dinello brings Malka to live with his voluble Italian family, where she begins to learn the ice cream trade and develops into a shrewder businessperson than any of the Dinellos ever were. Her fate is decided when Salvatore Dinello, a vendor of Italian ices, accidentally runs her down with his horse cart. Malka’s desperately poor mother tells her, “Anyone who doesn’t earn doesn’t eat,” so she heads out with her sister to beg pennies for singing and chores.
On the Lower East Side, families shattered like glass bottles. You half expect butterflies to be fluttering, elves whistling on the fire escapes, and everyone to burst into song. “In all those ridiculous fairy tales about immigrant life, poor-but-happy families pull together to launch a rag business - that turns into a tailor’s shop - that turns into Ralph Lauren,” the octogenarian Lillian observes.
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