Word: phrased
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Linkmate John A. Abraham ’10 recalled that Shaker would ask people, “What about it makes you happy?” a phrase that was printed below Shaker’s picture on the cards that were handed out as people walked into the church...
...course, you can train yourself to be optimistic through sheer mental discipline. Ever since psychologist Martin Seligman crafted the phrase "learned optimism" in 1991 and started offering optimism training, there's been a thriving industry in the kind of thought reform that supposedly overcomes negative thinking. You can buy any number of books and DVDs with titles like Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude, in which you will learn mental exercises to reprogram your outlook from gray to the rosiest pink: "affirmations," for example, in which you repeat upbeat predictions over and over to yourself; "visualizations" in which you post...
...James Bond is the only brand leader to have remained in the top spot over the years. An intelligence officer once told me that in the depths of the Third World he met a tribal leader whom he thought knew no English but who addressed him with the famous phrase "Hello, Mr. Bond." (See pictures of James Bond...
...most convincing writers on this subject was the American political scientist Barrington Moore. In his work on the social origins of dictatorships, Moore coined the phrase "No bourgeois, no democracy." It may be true that a middle class is necessary for the establishment of basic democratic rights, such as the vote. But the events of the past two decades have laid to rest any notion that the enrichment of a country provides an automatic impulse toward greater liberty. Remember the talk, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, about democracy arriving hand in hand with free markets? As people became...
Some background is in order. When the term “health care” was first birthed in the early 20th century, no one could deny that it was two words: literally, care with respect to health. As the phrase spread, however, its two components became more intimately linked; soon, the two-word unit became one word unit—complete with its own entry in the dictionary...