Word: blissed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...World War I was seven years past, the Russian Revolution was eight years old, and the music on my grandmother's wind-up Victrola was Yes, We Have No Bananas. Unaware of history's higher significance, I slumbered through the bliss of in fancy, feeling no impulse whatever to make some thing of myself." He did, eventually. Baker's elegantly literate humor column for the New York Times won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1979. Yet Baker, born into an age when boys still dreamed of be coming President, refused to dream of becoming anything...
...have settled into "a limbo of heterosexual palship haunted by silently howling abandoned hopes." As the tense sojourn drags toward its close, Bech finds his signature harder and harder to complete. Finally he lifts his pen. "All was poised, and the expectant blankness of the paper seemed an utter bliss to the author, as he gazed deep into the negative perfection to which his career had been brought. He could not even write his own name...
...humiliating.' How's that?" He continues, "Actually, I loved it. My wife loved it. My in-laws loved it....I was very surprised; I think of myself as an inspiring person, but....I don't know why they chose me, and I think in this case, ignorance is bliss...
Women can move proudly into the security of then-new bodies ? they can jog into shape, lift weights for body tone, wear themselves out in the disco bliss of Jazzercise. But what about men? "Jazzercise is a blowout," one Atlanta woman says. "Remember the first dances you went to, where all the girls ended up dancing with other girls because the boys couldn't dance? So this gives me a chance to dance, which my husband hasn't done since our wedding. But my husband still won't dance. Come to think of it, I'm back to dancing...
...Roberts), who is applying for the job of editing some articles that will eventually grow into Helen's autobiography. An ardent socialist, John foists a couple of books by Karl Marx on Annie and, before five minutes go by, steals two highly subversive kisses. The haunting note of bliss and trouble in paradise is simultaneously sounded...