Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower was at a pinnacle of his popularity. A Gallup poll, the first to be taken since the Geneva Conference at the Summit, showed that nearly eight out of ten Americans-more than ever before-approved of the way the President was doing his job. The news brought joy to Republican hearts and an inevitable renewal of the big question: Will Ike run again in 1956? The rumors, speculations, and informed guesses buzzed through sweltering Washington last week. In the midst of them, Ike was uncomfortably enigmatic-a role he thoroughly dislikes. The truth was that the President...
When the graduation exercises ended, the other men exploded with joy, flinging their caps high into the air with a great cheer. Eugene Landy looked at them sadly, his own cap clamped tightly under his arm, then walked away...
...insults march in disguise as compliments, as when Shaw wrote of Soprano Adelina Patti, after she had enjoyed 35 years of enormous popularity: "It is my firm belief that Patti is capable of becoming a great singer." Battle Lines. Shaw's criticisms are, almost to a word, a joy to read, even when the personalities are beyond memory. One reason: musical battle lines were clearly drawn in Shaw's day. He could be simply for or against Wagner (he was for) and romantic Italian opera (against, at least until Verdi's later works); musical forms were firm...
...EXCHANGE OF JOY (250 pp.)-Isabel Quigly-Harcourt, Brace...
...what we mind, they're not so niggly -. . That's how I feel: niggly." Soon, Celia is feeling so far from niggly that before Arcangelo makes a proper pass at her, she completes it. She finds that adultery, which should disturb her gives her a knife-edged joy. Arcangelo is "one of the three best poets in Italy," and through his eyes she sees the glories of Florence and Siena, and in his arms plumbs depths of awakened passion Arcangelo commands (Neddy had never given her a direct order), he is fiercely jealous and he refuses to acquire...