Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign student scholarships were first proposed by Joy Santoro...
...Williamsport, Pa. (pop. 46,000), by a bald, conservative optimist named George Lamade. By being aggressively agreeable, plain-looking, plain-spoken Grit has built up a national circulation of nearly 900,000 in 48 states, this month will celebrate its 75th birthday as the paper "that rings the joy bells of life...
Taxes & Loans. The credit for Sicily's renaissance goes largely to the island's autonomous regional parliament and to Domenico La Cavera, 41, the slim, dynamic president of Sicily's Confederation of Industry. Says La Cavera: "My heart beats with joy. I am vibrating with enthusiasm." He also vibrates with strong ideas about free enterprise and how to help it along. A peasant's son, La Cavera started out with a small cement plant, expanded it, then set out to see how U.S. industry operated. He returned from the U.S. convinced that Sicily should reject Italy...
...first of the novel's three parts is full of joy intensified by the painful difficulty of breaking out of loneliness and communicating this joy to loved ones: Rufus sees a Charlie Chaplin movie with his father and they walk quietly home looking "across the darkness at the lights of North Knoxville"; Jay, roused late at night to come to his sick father's bedside, makes his wife's breakfast in the 3:00 a.m. quiet of the kitchen to thank her because she had troubled to rise and make him something warm for the long night journey...
...tense tragedy of Mary's brother identifying a body in the darkness along a country road, and of Mary waiting in the kitchen's stark white light, trying to adjust to the expected news of Jay's death. She waits alone despite her aunt's presence because sorrow, like joy, is a loneliness infinitely difficult to communicate even though, and yet because, it depends upon others...