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Healthy-minded individuals, James notes, possess temperaments "organically weighted on the side of cheer." For some people healthy-mindedness consists simply of involuntarily feeling happy about things--it occurs as an immediate, spontaneous response...
...saint, as James treats him, epitomizes the Jamesian attitude toward religion and the religious life. "Instead of placing happiness where common men place it, in comfort, he places it in a higher kind of inner excitement, which converts discomforts into sources of cheer and annuls unhappiness. So he turns his back upon no duty, however thankless; and when we are in need of assistance, we can count upon the saint lending his hand with more certainty than we can count upon any other person.... Felicity, purity, charity, patience, self-severity--these are splendid excellencies, and the saint...
...federal Census Bureau listed the city's population as 7,891,957 in 1950 and 7,781,984 in 1960. Last year the city health department estimated the population at 7,782.000. Contributing a little spot of cheer in the midst of the city's fiscal gloom, officials reported last week that the take from parking meters is on the rise. In March the total came to $726,414, a new peak for any month. That was $207,772 more than in March...
...these days to skip the in-between birthdays and mark only the decades. So it was last week that Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev's 69th birthday was totally ignored by the Communist party press. Everyone was waiting until next year, when they could wander down to Red Square and cheer for his Biblical allotment...
Certainly one of the most entertaining articles that I've read in many a day. A pat on the back for the writer and a cheer for Cassius Clay, a young man who instinctively knows the only bit of truth worth knowing in this life-never take anything seriously (especially women...