Word: joy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indians of the Five Nations (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca) were called Iroquois by the French because they allegedly closed conversations with the words hiro ("I have spoken") and koué ("with joy" or "with sorrow," depending on the tone of voice used...
...September, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Jacqueline Lee Bouvier were married by Boston's Cardinal (then Archbishop) Gushing in a Newport extravaganza that moved society columnists to transports of joy. There were 26 groomsmen and bridesmaids, 700 guests (ranging from Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt to Marion Davies) at the nuptial Mass and 900 at the reception...
...sentimentalities spouted by the humanist Devil in Shaw's Man and Superman. Jesus, writes Murry, "is the spirit of liberated Man: Man's Love, man's Imagination; his passion for friendship; his unconquerable desire to trust; his inward knowledge that without trust there is no joy; no happiness; his everlasting longing to make a new beginning; his lovely humility, his hunger for laughter that is not cruel, his desire for a square deal, his loyalty to friendship, to love and to truth; his sense of shame for the other man who cheats him, or lets him down...
...persuades him to go home. They arrive. The wife is not there. The soldier hangs on his crutches, a broken man. Suddenly a woman screams his name. His head snaps up. She runs to him, covers his face with kisses. All at once he sags with relief; a terrible joy fills his face; he crushes her in his arms...
...projected 2,000-page Arabian Nights fantasia of a novel to be called Albondocani: "I hope to finish it just before I die, but only just" Recalling the meaning of her name, Isak Dinesen feels she has had the gift of laughter, and something more, "the pure joy of living, a sort of triumph simply because one exists." For the rest, she is content to quote the poet Landor...