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...Every morning before arising, lie relaxed in bed and deliberately drop happy thoughts into your conscious mind . . . While dressing or shaving . . . say aloud a few such remarks as the following: 'I believe this is going to be a wonderful day. I believe I can successfully handle all problems ... At intervals during the day ... let mental pictures of the most peaceful scenes . . . pass across your mind, as, for example, some beautiful valley filled with the hush of evening time, as the shadows lengthen and the sun sinks to rest...
...Stalin and Malenkov glowered from the walls of the Forbidden City, and soldiers armed with automatic rifles were everywhere ("to guard against invasion from Formosa," the Chinese explained). The Socialist delegates from Britain marveled at the disappearance of filth and the smell of human refuse from the streets, wondered aloud at the absence of beggars, exclaimed over the universal refusal to take...
Once the miners had come over the Welsh hills singing hymns as they came and crying aloud for "Nyrin, a king among men." Nye had gone down in the pits as one of them, with them had ridden the grimy streetcars, allotted to keep miners apart from clean folk. Miners held him their champion when he ranted against the Tory "vermin." In the Labor Party's councils, Nye was a leader of the tough unionists with small patience for the pale, university-trained Fabians such as Hugh Gaitskell. Unless Nye could capture the vote of his own miners...
...great Russian novelist's daughter, Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, confided that her unpredictable father preferred his folk tales and short stories to the eye-straining 687,000 words of his most famous novel. "He never reread War and Peace," said she. "And when he heard us reading it aloud one day, he didn't even recognize...
...collar, the "great George," the "lesser George," the Star and the Garter itself, a band of dark blue edged with gold and embroidered with the famed admonition of Edward III, "Honisoit qui mal y pense."-Later, in St. George's Chapel, Lord Halifax, Chancellor of the Order, read aloud the new knight's name and style ("Sir"), and he was led to a stall hung with the lion rampant of the Churchills...