Word: blissfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed to many to be proving Parkinson's Law. "Why," he said, "one year we have a secretary, then an assistant general secretary, then a secretariat." Shortly before the committee approved the pro visional admission of nine new churches, which will bring the total to 209, Dr. Kathleen Bliss of Great Britain, a member of the Executive Committee, pointed out that there is a risk involved in growth: the possibility that the council's original sense of fellowship may be lost. "A lot of churches join as a way of making themselves 'O.K.' churches," she said...
...Daya Mata is custodian and chief interpreter of Yogananda's teachings. Many of them are set down in a book of epigrammatic conversations with disciples, somewhat in the manner of the Confucian sayings. Sample: "Seek God for his own sake. The highest perception is to feel him as bliss, welling up from your infinite depths. Don't yearn for visions, spiritual phenomena, or thrilling experiences. The path to the divine is not a circus...
...Masoch, Oh, Mr. Masoch, It's such bliss to see the audiences cringe When submerged by Tennessee In his great Gehenna Sea, Or genétically ravaged inge by inge...
...very funny. But all the pleasure disappears a few minutes after the curtain rises on the final scene. At this point it becomes apparent that every situation is going to be worked out to its inevitable, ultra-corny conclusion. By the time the Karslakes were finally reunited in conjugal bliss and cooing at each other I was more disgusted than heart--warmed. Even Lassie leaves some of obvious things unsaid...
...Zenas R. Bliss, provost of Brown University, said last February that tuition at Brown will remain at $1600 next year, but did not guarantee that tuition would not increase in the fall...