Word: blissfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are some unexpected pitfalls on the road to contractual bliss. For example, most states still label homosexual acts as criminal, so a contract based on a homosexual relationship might be voided by the courts. The law also prohibits agreements that "facilitate" or "encourage" divorce, and any document listing property rights that either party will get in the event of divorce may do just that. Ashley counsels "skillful legal drafting," naturally done by a good lawyer, that refers to any eventual separation as the most loathsome" of all possible eventualities...
...automobile accident. Chapin had enemies as well as friends on the Met's faction-ridden board of directors, and he was eased out in June 1975. The Met decided to abolish the job of general manager and substitute a conglomerate-style troika: executive director (Anthony A. Bliss), music director (James Levine), director of production (John Dexter). This reorganization apparently reflected the board's resentment of Bing, Chapin's autocratic predecessor. William Rockefeller, board president in 1975, also complained that Chapin had become a public personality, as though that were...
What barriers can he possibly create to frustrate his lovers in order to 1) create contrast for their few moments of middle-passage bliss and 2) strike an ominous chord in order to prepare us for the large final frustration...
...down again. It is a pattern that comes to define his life. At college, uncooperative coeds help him keep naughty Kepesh at bay; nice Kepesh becomes a perceptive student of Anton Chekhov's "romantic disillusionment" and wins a Fulbright scholarship. In London, disaster - and on the other hand, bliss. Kepesh takes up lodgings with two Swedish girls, one of whom outstrips his most humid sexual fantasies...
With infinite resignation [the man of faith] has drained the cup of life's profound sadness, he knows the bliss of the infinite, he senses the pain of renouncing everything, the dearest things he possesses in the world, and yet finiteness tastes to him just as good as to one who never knew anything higher, for his continuance in the finite did not bear a trace of the cowed and fearful spirit produced by the process of training; and yet he has the sense of security in enjoying it, as though the finite life were the surest thing...