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...fastest-growing sports. Though first put on skis at the age of three, Prager had not set boot to binding for 26 years. His talks with Seibert provided all the inspiration he needed. After a few hours at the Vail ski school, he recalls, "I discovered to my pleasant surprise that some of the old balance and ski sense were still there...
...Bernstein (class of '39), being a professor has provided pleasant surprises. "When I was at Harvard," he says, "no one was making music. I'm so happy to hear music at Harvard now." He has been hearing music elsewhere in Boston as well. During his six-week visit this fall, he worked with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and his rehearsals and concerts were videotaped for the lectures he will deliver during another six-week residence next spring...
...endless political intrigue between court factions who wanted to influence the future monarch. "I will be good," the 11-year-old Victoria exclaimed with fervor when Lehzen revealed to her that one day she would be Queen. But life, meanwhile, was cruelly tedious. "I am very fond of pleasant society," she complained when 16, "and we have been for the last three months immured within our old palace. I longed sadly for some gaiety." The princess was a creature of exuberant vitality. As a diarist, for example, she tried to practice total recall, scribbling and underlining 2,000 words...
...FEBRUARY, Hynes received another, more pleasant surprise. He was asked to play on the American Olympic Olympic team, which went on to earn the silver medal in the competition in Japan. Hynes refused. "I felt I had an obligation to Harvard hockey," he said, explaining his decision. "If I had gone to the Olympics; I would have missed the Pennsylvania and Clarkson games, Also. I didn't know whether I could handle the work. Harvard was going to send my exams to Japan. It would have been hard to play Olympic hockey in the afternoon and take an exam...
...mystical state of consciousness." After her recovery, a nurse who nearly died from an allergic reaction to penicillin reported an experience of bliss and ecstasy in which she was idyllically absorbed in contemplating a mental picture of the Taj Mahal. Similarly, Heim reported: "Death through falling is subjectively very pleasant. Those who have died in the mountains have, in their last moments, reviewed their individual pasts in states of transfiguration. Elevated above corporeal grief, they were under the sway of noble and profound thoughts, heavenly music, and a feeling of peace and reconciliation. They fell through a blue and roseate...