Word: blissfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PINESS, n. [from happy.] The agreeable sensations which spring from the enjoyment of good ; that state of a being in which his desires are gratified, by the enjoyment of pleasure without pain ; felicity; but happiness usually expresses less than felicity, and felicity less than bliss. Happiness is comparative. To a person distressed with pain, relief from that pain affords happiness ; in other cases we give the name happiness to positive pleasure or an excitement of agreeable sensations. Happiness therefore admits of indefinite degrees of increase in enjoyment, or gratification of desires. Perfect happiness, or pleasure unalloyed with pain...
...FELICITY, BEATITUDE, BLESSEDNESS, BLISS: HAPPINESS is the general term denoting enjoyment of or pleasurable satisfaction in wellbeing, security, or fulfillment of wishes (pleasures may come about through chance contact and stimulation; such pleasures are not to be despised in a world full of pain. But happiness and delight are a different sort of thing. They come to be through a fulfillment that reaches to the depths of our being - one that is an adjustment of our whole being with the conditions of existence -John Dewey) FELICITY, a more bookish or elevated word, may denote a higher, more lasting, or more...
...moves during the weeks of dramatic wrangling were equally confused. In midsummer, its labor problems still unresolved, management's top men were pointedly out of town-autocratic General Manager Rudolf Bing in Europe and Opera Association President Anthony Bliss in Montana. And while Bing was in Italy, contemptuously dismissing Goldberg's offer to intervene (it would not help, he said, "a bit"), Bliss graciously accepted...
...aides were well-scrubbed, white-shirted and business-suited as they waited at New Delhi's Palam airport. "I'll be damned," cried one of the greeters as the arriving U.S. State Department dignitary bounded down from the big MATS Constellation. For Under Secretary of State Chester Bliss Bowles stepped forth in shirtsleeves, shorts and sweat socks...
Mary, Mary, unsanitary How grows eternal bliss? "Thru love's old joys With West Point boys, And mononucleosis...