Word: jovialness
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...been interned for two years at Auschwitz and the nearby slave-labor camp of Buna-Monowitz. In an earlier book, If This Is a Man, Chemist-Sociologist Levi recalled his imprisonment in chilling detail. In this reflective sequel, he tells of his arduous return to life. With jovial inefficiency, the Russians shunted him from camp to camp, finally sent him off on a ramshackle freight train that wandered erratically for 33 days across six countries before setting him down at last in sunny Italy. The journey had its bits of humor: Captain Egorov, commander of a repatriation camp...
There are some bright spots in the book. Betsy's letters to Mary have the genuine mock-jovial tragic confessional touch of an unhappy person indulging in the fascination of watching herself go to pot. These letters, more than the dozens of other pages spent on the subject, lay bare the workings of her involuted psyche...
...told that Illinois' Representative Paul Findley, leader of the delegation, had surmised that NATO's problems might be the result of some sort of misunderstanding, Dirksen chortled: "That's cute." Next day Dirksen had a second thought, issued a statement saying: "It is regrettable that this jovial exchange with the press was reported." By that time, the Coordinating Committee's meeting was over, and Politician Emeritus Eisenhower had already had dinner at the White House and exchanged glowing toasts with Democrat Lyndon Johnson...
Quote from the Consul. Next night, on the White House south lawn, the Johnsons greeted about 800 top-ranking military officers and Defense Department officials and their wives. In a jovial mood, the President ambled over to the bandstand, hoisted himself over a railing to shake hands with each band member. Cried an Army general in the audience afterward: "I thought you were going to play all the instruments. Mr. President." Replied Johnson: "I can play 'em all. I'm a switch hitter...
...Power of Peale. Still, going into last week's Masters Tournament at Augusta, Ga., golfs No. 1 money winner ($113,284 in 1964) was in anything but a jovial mood: he had not won a tournament in six months, and his official earnings this year totaled a piddling $14,400 - hardly enough to support the new blue and white Aero Commander he flies around the circuit...