Word: blissfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...professorship in Latin American literature joins two other chairs in Latin American studies which are currently without permanent occupants, the Bliss Professorship in Latin American History and the Monroe Gutman Professorship of Latin American Affairs, a chair usually occupied by experts on government...
...income from the Bliss endowment is currently being used to support three Bliss Fellows who have been studying Latin American history. Two of them, Thomas E. Skidmore and Gordon Smith, will resume teaching next year, while the third, John Womack, will become available in September...
...feud and crush the wall, the hire the Narrator, who is now a "Professional Abductor" known as El Gallo (he carries a card). The rape is a grand success (that is, it is a magnificent failure) and the act closes with the wall dismantled, and the families united in bliss, apparently about to live happily ever after...
Take Colonel Bliss (Eddie Albert), a brilliant staff officer who cracks up under the strain of command. After a few weeks under Peck's care he-come to think of it, Colonel Bliss commits suicide. But take Little Jim (Bobby Darin), a sad sack in a flat funk until Peck shoots him full of s.p. For about ten minutes Bobby lies on a cot making faces like Harpo Marx, and then zowie! he's cured. He flies back to his unit, takes off on a bombing mission, runs into flak and- Well, who cares about the patients when...
...rally the Negro community, the NAACP has called for a one-day boycott of public schools on February 26. Many usually reasonable people, Cardinal Cushing among them, are horrified, fearing that the stayout will confuse and disturb the children involved. While sincere, this fear reflects the "ignorance is bliss" attitude that has long blocked racial progress in the city. Prejudice must be recognized and wrestled with; it will not vanish...