Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mortgage Guaranty stock profit was about the only pleasant memory Trudy Novak could muster. The Novaks, she said, lost every penny of a $107,000 investment in Baker's Carousel motel in Ocean City, Md., when Baker sold out at a loss. A $15,000 investment in a Baker-suggested electronics stock was nearly wiped out when the price fell. Then, 21 months ago, Alfred Novak was found dead in the garage at his home; the District of Columbia coroner ruled the death a suicide...
...green and pleasant town of Westham in Sussex last week, the Rev. Harold Coulthurst performed one of the rarest of Anglican ceremonies: rehallowing an altar. Rehallowing was required because several days before, four men had been surprised while in the midst of a mysterious ritual inside Westham's 11th century church of St. Mary the Virgin. "The men were trying to communicate with evil spirits," declared Coulthurst. "They were chanting some sort of mumbo jumbo. They were definitely in league with the devil...
...bustling pace of 20th century business often slows to a pleasant walk in Idaho. In the state's sylvan surroundings, many businessmen duck-hunt before work, water-ski after work, and fret less about growth charts than about the potato crop. It seems an unlikely setting for a modern, aggressive company. But that is just what Idaho has in the Boise Cascade Corp., which has grown in only six years into a major enterprise and a magnet for Eastern-trained executives...
...Kunin's first session is devoted to getting the patient relaxed, and suggesting to him while he is still hypnotized that he will be able to relax in the same manner any time he chooses. At the next session, Dr. Kunin says: "Turn your thoughts to a pleasant scene-a mountain, a beach or a woodland-and picture it to yourself. See yourself there. When this is in your mind, let your 'Yes' finger lift...
...important thing is for the patient to visualize the scene. Dr. Kunin feels that too many people do not "see with the mind's eye," but think about things in near-abstract terms, which are not good enough for psychotherapy. When the patient has pictured the pleasant scene of his choice, Dr. Kunin asks him to recall a previous occasion when he was in a similar situation, and to describe it, along with his feelings about it. If the therapist interrupts with questions, the finger lifts are sufficient answers, and they do not break the chain of the patient...