Word: cheerfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France, since the Shah first met his young Queen-to-be while she was an architecture student in Paris. Through flag-bedecked streets rode De Gaulle in a gilded state carriage. Along the route, crowds chanted "Zindehbad [long live] De Gaulle," which turned out to be a particularly poetic cheer, since the visitor's name sounds like "Two Flowers" in Farsi, the Persian tongue. Ignoring Draconian security measures, Two Flowers moved right into the crowd and shook hundreds of outstretched hands just as if he were at home. He toured the ancient cities of Shiraz, Isfahan and Persepolis, viewed...
Then we kissed the little maiden, And we spoke in better cheer...
Like a Pope Should. As St. Peter's bells clanged out the hour, a cheer started at the door of Santa Marta, gradually filling the church. Surrounded by halberd-bearing Swiss Guards, borne high above the crowd on a portable chair, Pope Paul VI bobbed toward the high altar. He looked small and frail beneath his white robes and heavy red stole; his soft, graceful gestures reminded many of Pius XII. "I was very fond of John, but Paul looks more like a Pope should," an Italian student said...
...still do not have insight, a real feeling for those feverish days. Those who lived through those times do not find the insight in this novel, even if they cheer when they hear the old arguments and issues invoked. Those critics must feel much like one does upon seeing a movie of his home town. The younger generation does not even have the memories...
...Chicago's, although neither city yet recognizes it as sole bargaining agent. It is strong in Milwaukee and Gary. But its prize is New York, the nation's biggest school system, where it claims 20,000 teachers and speaks for all the others. To cheer on New York, the union will hold its national convention there next week and shout for collective bargaining...