Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very different sort of scene. From the divided city's Western sector, they came on foot by the thousands-old people struggling with sacks full of presents, small children carrying freshly cut roses or tulips, young mothers pushing prams, men lugging thick suitcases. Alternately smiling and weeping for joy, the visitors trudged past the tank traps, the death strip, the watchtowers. Finally, after clearing the last checkpoint, they rushed to meet friends and relatives whose faces some of them had almost forgotten. "Meine Liebe!" cried one old lady as she embraced an East Berlin friend. "What a beautiful...
...Buster Keaton and Animator Chuck (Roadrunner) Jones. The result is a comedy made by a man who has seen a lot of movies, knows all the mechanics, and has absolutely no sense of humor. Seeing What's Up, Doc? is like shaking hands with a joker holding a Joy Buzzer. The effect is both presumptuous and unpleasant...
Even in this limited circle, the effect of the document is awesome. Everyone who reads it is filled with in explicable joy. Miracles begin to happen. While reading the text a lame girl loses her affliction, and a deaf man looks up from the pages amazed - suddenly he can hear again. Even the project's public relations man, a worldly type who thinks of God as "some big bag of ooze in the sky," is seized with faith...
...Joy in Himself. Many democratic-minded Greeks resent the open U.S. support of the Papadopoulos dictatorship. Last month Washington gave further evidence of its acceptance of his regime by negotiating for home-port rights in the bays near Athens for the Mediterranean-based Sixth Fleet. In addition, the Nixon Administration is trying to persuade Congress to up military aid to Greece from about $90 million to $118 million...
...Novelist Gunter Grass was willing to do so. "I went to Delphi today," Grass observed. "The oracle suggested that only when Prime Minister Papadopoulos, in his role of Minister of Defense, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regent, also becomes the Archbishop of Athens will he resemble God and take joy in himself...