Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Feeling ran high in Sweden, the home of the Nobel Prizes. Even the Communist newspaper Ny Dag thought that Pasternak should have been allowed to accept the prize. Last week the Nobel Prize for Physics went to three Soviet scientists, and Russia greeted the news with joy. The winners were allowed to accept the prize (see SCIENCE). But the Russian insults to neutral Sweden for rewarding Pasternak had left a sour taste in the mouths of the 15 Nobel judges (among them: U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold). They had honored Pasternak not because he was anti-Communist but because they...
...passenger airliner had aboard four West Germans and a Briton (as well as 16 Chinese Communist officials) when it crashed 380 miles east of Moscow on a flight from Peking to Moscow, killing all 65 aboard. It was the first acknowledged crash of Russia's pride and joy, the Tupolev twinjet, since it went into general service two years...
...seldom allowed himself while racing. Said he: "The exhilaration of racing a smooth-running car and the challenge of keeping in the lead had become drudgery, a constant effort and worry to give people who entrusted me with their cars and money the returns they expected. The joy of the first years became mere fatigue. Not only my body is tired but my spirit as well. They were the most exciting years of my life. I never considered a car as an instrument to achieve an end, but as part of myself or better. I was a part...
...Europe. In Paris he was interviewed by the weekly L'Express. Was he a Communist? "There is no such thing as a Communist." What were the differences between France and Poland? "I think that people here are able, at least to some extent, to get an element of joy out of life." What was it like to live under Communism? "The misfortune of a man in a totalitarian country is the feeling, a feeling that never leaves him, of the grotesqueness and ridiculousness of one's own self-the reduction of dreams-the reduction of desires-a moral...
Ireland. To the Irish Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart: "Ireland is a land of the smile and the tear. Also, alas, what a flood of tears, drowning out the joy and laughter of home and hearth, has poured through when the dyke of temperance has been shattered...