Word: sleep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pages. Author Peale issues some categorical imperatives, e.g., "Love your job," "Have a spiritual operation on yourself and get all moral fester removed." The Peale disciple's day begins with mental pushups: 'This is going to be a fine day. I had a splendid night's sleep. I am glad that I am alive. First. I shall enjoy a good breakfast. Then I will have some happy fellowship with my loved ones before the day's work begins." One may take a deep breath before the mirror and say: "I am standing tall, I am believing...
...Never put whisky into hot water bottle crossing borders of dry states or countries. Rubber will spoil taste. Never make love with pants on. Never sleep in moonlight. Known by scientists to induce madness . . . Never wear red necktie. Provide light snorts for ladies if entertaining. Effects of harder stuff on frail sex sometimes disastrous. Bathe in cold water every morning. Painful but exhilarating . . . Eat fresh fish for breakfast. Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely gray hair. Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand...
...attack vindictively!" 4) "Don't rush rashly!" The Three Do's: 1) "Do grapple courageously!" 2) "Do cooperate creatively!" 3) "Do adventure spiritually!" All of this is achieved by putting oneself in a semihypnotic trance, the main danger of which "is that you might go to sleep." If sleep is evaded, one flips to the front of the book and charts one's emotional score on a "Mood Meter" which contains 30 ratings from + 15 ("Ecstatic") to -15 ("Miserable"), with such in-between moods as +9 ("Gay") and -11 ("Disgusted...
...married an American because I believed all his lies about this country. In England I attended concerts, the theater, dances, whist drives, etc. Here in five years we stay in every night, my husband drops off to sleep, and I look at TV which I hate. For such a huge country I think its lack of traditions, glamour and culture disgusting. Furthermore, tiny England is always being criticized, but Russia, nearer your own size, gets away with anything, including murder. I'm just saving until I can skip this lousy burg...
...from so many people who say, 'Please, let's have something that stretches us a bit; let's have something that makes us wake up and even keeps us awake, because television so many times is a kind of soporific-we use it to go to sleep. Please,' they say, 'teach us; we want to know things...