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...Pilgrim, in which an anonymous Russian peasant tells how he roamed the land first learning, and then teaching, the Jesus Prayer. " 'Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me.' I mean that's what it is," Franny explains with careful casualness. "If you keep saying that prayer over and over again???you only have to do it with your lips at first?then eventually what happens, the prayer becomes self-active. Something happens after a while. I don't know what, but something happens, and the words get synchronized with the person's heartbeats...
...Diem learned any lessons from his close escape? The fear of U.S. officials on the spot was that the soldiers might revolt again???this time with tougher ambitions. "The army has lost its virginity,'' suggested an old political hand. "Next time it will be easier...
...else for some future Nobel ceremony." Chances are, Glaser himself may some day want it back for just that reason. Having reached top rank in his field with his invention of a bubble chamber for photographing atomic particles, the Cleveland storekeeper's son has decided to start all over again???this time in microbiology...
...bottom over the question "as to whether papers should be kept folded, as had been the habit in the 18th Century, or flat." When the more modern school seemed to have won out, "a certain Ambassador of the Old School was appointed . . . and had them all refolded again??? the work of several months...
...certainly do not expect ever to run for public office again. I've had all I can stand of it. I'll never lose my interest in public affairs but as far as running for office again???that's finished...