Word: delight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Uniting the Implacable. Thus Teilhard discerned man's future with expectation and delight. Although he lived through two world wars, he argued prophetically that such social upheavals were merely the birth pangs of a new and greater era. "Every new war," he wrote in 1945 in The Planetisation of Mankind, "embarked upon by the nations for the purpose of detaching themselves from one another, merely results in their being bound and mingled together in a more inextricable knot. The more we seek to thrust each other away, the more do we interpenetrate...
...approve the bill unless medicare was included. Gore even threatened a filibuster. The three held out because each wanted to uphold the Senate position, thus gain more points in their rival ambitions to succeed Hubert Humphrey as Democratic whip. Also lost in the shuffle, to Johnson's probable delight: a Senate-passed "sense of Congress" resolution that Supreme Court-ordered redistricting of state legislatures should be delayed - a subject that had tied the Senate up for five weeks...
...PETER BLAKE, 32, insists that painting should be pleasing to non-cognoscenti. To Blake's delight, his The Da Vinci Brothers was bought by a professional soccer player. "What I'm doing becomes a folk art," he says. For ten years, since he first enrolled at the Royal College of Art, he has filled his paintings with medals, badges, fancy lettering, pinups, comic strips (he incorporated one in a 1957 painting), athletes,, pop singers from Elvis to the Beatles. Unlike U.S. pop artists, whom he believes (incorrectly) to be harsh satirists, Blake packs his pictures with instant memorabilia...
...times and at all costs the President directs as much attention as possible to his wife. Lady Bird's compliments to the host city--as obviously overzealous as the President's--always delight the audience. As she walks along a fence shaking hands, she is often complimented upon her appearance by the delighted spectators. The President seems to use Lady Bird's speaking ability to give him an opportunity to rest before a major address. Once he has introduced her, the crowd pleads that she say a few words, and this gives him time to hastily review the talk...
...several stops on the New England tour, the Presidential party was astonished by a recurrence of the "jumpers" of President Kennedy's 1960 campaign. The squeals of delight from teenage girls often sounded as if it were The Beatles and not the President who had arrived in town. The mobs greeting the Presidential plane were so enthusiastic that they were often satisfied merely to shake the hand of the driver of the press bus--as long as it was someone "with" the President...