Word: blisse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your cover story [May 31] was the first in-depth study that didn't criticize Paul McCartney's capriciousness, sentimentality, pop dabbling at the expense of classicism and, most ungodly, his flaunting of marital bliss...
...checked in each other. Lennon collaborated with his wife, Yoko Ono, on a series of noisome avant-garde records, then switched to abrasive social protest on subjects as various as the Attica killings and the oppression of women. McCartney wrote about the undemanding pleasures of farm life and domestic bliss, going so far as to record a version of Mary Had a Little Lamb four years...
There are hints that the devil's domain isn't so unpleasant, it smells of earth and spice, while there's a noticeable stench in heaven. Nonetheless, he wistfully longs for material comforts or transcendent bliss--some new clothes would be nice, he hasn't changed since the Spanish Inquisition. The onset of Nausea puts an end to such thoughts, though, and Sartre hasn't even come along yet (Panizza wrote in 1873). Back to work...
When Mildred B. Bliss died in 1969, leaving Harvard sole custodian of what had been her elegant Washington, D.C., home and 16-acre garden, she stressed in her will that the estate's trees were "not to be neglected or lightly destroyed...
...Bliss and her husband, Robert W. Bliss, formally transferred their estate, Dumbarton Oaks, to Harvard to house the Center for Byzantine Studies. Later a collection of pre-Columbian art and a library of garden design were added...