Word: vincents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Norman Vincent Peale, 62, a longstanding Republican whose Protestant following rivals Billy Graham's as the largest in the U.S. His nationally syndicated column, Confident Living, appears in 196 newspapers. His radio show, The Art of Living, is broadcast on some 60 NBC stations. His monthly magazine, Guideposts, reaches far and wide across the land. His church, Manhattan's Marble Collegiate, is filled to overflowing for each of his two Sunday sermons. He has sold more than 4,000,000 hard-covered copies of his books, e.g., The Power of Positive Thinking, A Guide to Confident Living...
Scientists have long known that the muscle contractions necessary to produce these rapid wing beats are not triggered individually by nerve stimulus, as in birds. Nerves cannot work that fast. How then does the midge fly? In Britain's New Scientist, Professor Vincent B. Wigglesworth, extracting reports by other European scientists, supplies the answer: midges-and presumably other similar insects-are automatic flying machines. A midge's muscular motor works in much the same way as a piston engine. Once the ignition is turned on. the engine keeps running until the ignition is turned off or the fuel...
...trouble was that the dead man, a George Vincent Nash, was an Indian, and White Chapel is "restricted to members of the Caucasian race." White Chapel officials insisted on sticking to the letter of the rule, even though Nash's wife, only part Indian, had been buried in the adjoining lot back in 1949. Sniffed E. Reed Hunt, president of a cemetery association that includes White Chapel: "If we made an exception in this case, some 40,000 plot owners would be able to take action against the cemetery because they paid for the restriction...
...Healing Power of Poetry, by Dr. Smiley Blanton (Crowell; $3.95). The author, perhaps the only positive-thinking psychiatrist in the country, is the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale's trusted associate. Says Dr. Peale: "Actually, this book is but another means by which this kindly doctor loves people into improved health...
...welfare state Jane Austen, a novelist in whose hands the commonplace becomes mysteriously implausible, the routine eerily irrational. Unlike the scheming septuagenarians of her earlier novel, Memento Mori, the inhabitants of Peckham Rye are so determinedly average that they lack even the capacity to sin grandly. When Mr. Vincent Druce, the managing director of a small textile firm, visits his secretary, Miss Merle Coverdale, to make love to her in the evening, their activity is as carefully calculated as the time-motion studies with which Druce plagues his employees: dinner before the TV (Brussels sprouts with a bottle of stomach...