Word: joy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peter Paul, as any sweet-toothed tot knows, makes a bar of chocolate, coconut, corn syrup and sugar known as Mounds and another, with almonds added, called Almond Joy. What the kids may not care about is that Mounds and Almond Joy outsell even the Hershey bar among 100 candies. On the basis of these two products, Peter Paul Inc.-named for one of a group of Armenian immigrants who organized the company in 1919-made its way for years in a prosperous but unpretentious way. "They were a nice little business," says Zender today, "but they were reluctant...
...Plow with Sound. Nostalgists still mourn for the days when most farm chores were handled by horses instead of horsepower, by men instead of machines. As Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman recently noted, they fear that the trend toward automation "will excise the soul from farming, destroy its joy, dull its satisfactions and chill the ageless intimacy between man and his land." This view notwithstanding, most farmers welcome machine-age relief from what Dr. Joseph Ackerman, managing director of Chicago's Farm Foundation, calls "farming by hunch and the Farmer's Almanac...
...performance which had moments of both inordinate inspiration and egregious sloppiness. Coordination between the two forces was haphazard, this due to Schmidt's sacrificing clarity of beat in favor of a continuous, feverish intensity of motion. He huffed and he puffed, he grimaced with grief, he smiled with beatific joy. Sometimes he succeeded (usually in fortissimo passages), but most often he was unable to convey any unified conception of this difficult and eccentric master-piece. Of the four vocal solists, Barbara Wallace's beautiful soprano line was so expansive that it all but obscured the others...
...call and secretes a wrapped bundle in a closet. Then he flees, into the arms of the bobbies, and the package lies mouldering in a closet until the old lady comes upon it and rips it open. The sight of the stolen loot drives her nearly mad with joy; in her mind it becomes the nonexistent legacy, testimony to her tale of vanished elegance...
Delegates to the conference had another reason, provided by recent political events, for joy. As fundamentalists who interpret the Bible literally, and who confidently await the second coming of the Lord, they are almost as enthusiastic as Zionists about Israel's victory over Egypt. For that, the Pentecostalists claim, is a sign that God's kingdom is closer than ever...