Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seen it all before. You've got Naziism in the first degree: crowds of students breaking up opposition meetings, the highest court being overruled, huge 'strength through joy' festivals, frenzied resentment of criticism from abroad. I'm leaving...
...promptly started a nine-day holiday to commemorate 1) the Peace Treaty, 2) Emperor Hirohito's 51st birthday, 3) May Day, 4) Japan's Memorial Day, 5) Japan's war-renouncing Constitution, 6) Children's Day. Headlined Tokyo's Nippon Times: LITTLE SIGNS OF JOY; PEOPLE IN QUANDARY...
...captious German movie critic once called her "die Oelige Ziege" (oily goat) because of the slippery way she slid around mountain peaks in her movies. But to Dictator Adolf Hitler, sinuous suntanned Leni Riefenstahl, the daughter of a Berlin plumber, seemed the perfect female embodiment of Aryan strength through joy. Under Adolf's patronage, Actress-Producer Leni became the reigning queen of German moviedom. Given the job of filming the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin, Leni produced a picture as artful as it was artistic. It took top critical honors at Italy's International Film Festival...
...With such expert constitutionalists as Harvard's Carl Friedrich on hand to advise on sticky points, they wrote draft after draft, debating each clause like so many tropical Madisons and Hamiltons. Their bill of rights, written under the guidance of University Rector Jaime Benitez, is their special pride & joy. Revising Thomas Jefferson, it proclaims "the right to life, liberty and the enjoyment of property." It forbids wiretapping and capital punishment; it authorizes peaceful picketing. It also "recognizes the existence of" such aspirations as the right to work, to free schooling, "the right of every person to a standard...
...make an extremely bitter attack upon the personnel who are training to defend their country and the dignity of all Americans. It is the practice of the Communist Party in this country today to knock the military profession as much as possible, and it is also the great joy of pseudo-liberals to do likewise. I do not infer that Mr. Kameny is either of these, for it may just possibly be that he does not understand the purposes of ROTC, or it may even be that he is simply incapable of understanding...