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...possibility that your expression could affect your mood was first suggested to me by Marsha Linehan, a University of Washington psychologist who treats suicidal patients. She has found that helping patients modulate their facial expressions - relaxing the face when angry, for instance - can help them control their emotions. Ekman and his colleagues provided evidence of this in a Science paper back in 1983. They found that those instructed to produce certain facial movements showed the same physiological responses as those asked to recall a highly emotional experience. Later, a study showed that if you hold a pencil between your teeth...
...virtues into the fabric of his urgent priorities. "In the 21st century," he said, "security and prosperity at home depend on the expansion of liberty abroad." This was one more formulation of Bush's central philosophy, which he said is threatened by the rise of an isolationist and protectionist mood. "If America does not lead the cause of freedom," he continued, "that cause will...
Everything he did that March 4 conveyed confidence and a break from what he called foolish tradition. Following a hot-dog lunch at the White House, the new President, in holiday mood, beamed indiscriminately as Al Smith, cowboy star Tom Mix and six miles of jubilant Democrats paraded past his reviewing stand. Just a day after a decidedly unpleasant Red Room tea with the Hoovers, Roosevelt returned to the same room to greet 13 children on crutches, emissaries of hope from Warm Springs, Ga. Declaring, "It is my intention to inaugurate precedents like this from time to time," he looked...
...anytime soon. But, as he has discovered, sometimes audiences would rather focus on hope than hypocrisy. He frets that Gethsemane's initial reception was muted because it opened during the glow of Barack Obama's election. "All these people came, in a wonderful mood," he says. "Then they sat down and were faced with the shenanigans of the old gang, behaving in their usual dreadful way. You could feel in the audience a sense of 'We don't want this.' " Within weeks, though, the audience's cynicism had returned, and the play drew cheers. Hare's great theme - power...
...mood was similar at the start of the 2006 war against Hizballah in Lebanon, but soured when it became obvious that Israeli politicians and generals were bungling the war, and that soldiers' lives were being needlessly lost. That hasn't happened yet, but already a few retired generals are starting to complain that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his cabinet are dithering. Says former National Security Council Chief Maj. Gen. Giora Eiland, "Either reach a cease-fire in two to three days, or start a big military operation that will take at least two weeks. We've been beating around...