Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the first manned spaceship takes off for Mars, it may be followed through emptiness by radio beams, perhaps by television. Comforting words and familiar sights from the receding earth will be useful for keeping the crew on an even mental keel. Also useful will be the voice of a soothing space psychotherapist...
Nothing solid was heard of Markos for eight years. Then from Communist Poland last month came reports that Markos had turned up there after imprisonment in Rumania and treatment for a mental disorder. Last week a small announcement in the East German (Communist) Neues Deutschland ended the Markos mystery. A resolution by the exiled Greek Communist Party restored to Comrade Markos Vafiades his rights as a member of the Central Committee, admitted that he "had been disciplined by the Central Committee on the basis of empty accusations and by violation of the party statutes during the abnormal inner-party regime...
...powerless, however, and is a sufficiently adept opportunist to make a comeback of sorts. If the segregationist tack falls through, Kasper has anti-Semitism, an old stand-by of his, to work from. Unlike his mentor, Ezra Pound, the insane poet who is now confined in a mental hospital, Kasper is not deranged...
During the working day it helps to pray: "Lord, fill me with enthusiasm for my product (naming it)." With nightfall comes the time to "flush negatives," to practice "mind-drainage," or (after the fashion of Author Peale himself) to "visualize 'dropping' mental impedimenta into an imaginary wastebasket...
...Power Within You, by Claude Bristol and Harold Sherman (Prentice-Hall; 85,000 copies), is about as noisy as the mental dynamite it promises to detonate-that something which will "release you from chronic nervous tensions, chase the butterflies out of your stomach . . . and enable you to face things you've been running away from, for years!" The authors rattle on like pneumatic drills and 200 pages later bore through to the autosuggestive heart of the matter: "Your main, over-all theme in life, of course, is: 'I am going to succeed in everything I undertake...