Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last autumn in his authoritative Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin. In the late 1880s Gauguin was painting in the Breton village of Pont-Aven along impressionist lines. Bernard was a precocious, rebellious, perceptive intellectual. He used to go on painting jaunts outside Paris with another unknown named Vincent van Gogh, who thought well of Bernard's work. Van Gogh urged Bernard to see Gauguin, who had once rebuffed him, and the young painter went to Pont-Aven in early August 1888 equipped with the latest avant-garde notions from the capital plus some theories...
...magazines seldom propose drastic solutions that involve risk or hardship. Instead, they suggest that most problems can be solved by affection, tolerance, self-discipline-what Sociologist David Riesman calls the "newer, internal goals of happiness and peace of mind." Where their uptown sisters may lean on Norman Vincent Peale or Miltown, Wage-Town women have their magazines...
STAY ALIVE ALL YOUR LIFE (300 pp.)-Norman Vincent Peale-Prentice-HalI...
...Manhattan taxi driver recently mistook Norman Vincent Peale for a physician. After grumping about the weather and shrugging off the Rev. Dr. Peak's cheery rejoinders ("Good old rain"), the cabby turned to state his symptoms: "Say doc, I've got some pains in my back. I feel terrible." As Author Peale tells it. he replied: "Although I'm not accustomed to practicing in taxicabs, I think you have psycho-sclerosis...
...psycho-sclerotics everywhere, the book news of the year is that the analgesic of Norman Vincent Peale's "positive thinking" is available in a new container. In keeping with Peale's injunction to "think big, believe big. act big," his publishers are planning big (first printing: 100,000 copies) and spending big (initial advertising budget: $45,000). They also expect to keep cash registers Pealing merrily with an offer to book dealers: 15 copies free for every 100 orders of the pastor's backlog, e.g., The Power of Positive Thinking, A Guide to Confident Living...