Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Little joy is to be found in Boston these days. The whole city feels itself spiritually sacked, burned, and plowed under with salt after last Friday's announcement that the Baseball Writers Association had chosen Mickey Mantle the American League's Most Valuable Player instead of the only rational choice, Ted Williams...
...Gallic Wars becomes an unbearable torture in the days following the night he finds Miss Olsen, the town tobacco-shop girl, staggering dead drunk through the streets. Despite Vidgren's initial revulsion at the girl and her unsavory reputation, the two quickly become bosom companions, as Vidgren tastes the joy of his first affair...
...pass option play. The lean, long-muscled Oklahomans who had never played on a losing team were hard put to hold the game to a scoreless tie. And in the fourth quarter, they could no longer do that. Notre Dame Fullback Nick Pietrosante shared with Halfback Pat Doyle the joy of bulling for steady yardage through the outcharged Oklahoma line. They brought the ball all the way down to the three-yard line. Then, when the Sooners jammed the middle to stop them, Irish Quarterback Bob Williams pitched out to Halfback Dick Lynch for the game-winning touchdown...
...week firmly established itself as one of the season's brightest newcomers with The Revivalists, a hallelujah-breathing documentary film on militant evangelism. From the husky-voiced zeal of Billy Sunday to the polished fervor of Billy Graham, the camera caught arresting glimpses of believers throbbing with the joy of religion. A Negro named Cat-Iron Carradino croaked a hymn and plucked his guitar as he carried the message down Tin Can Alley in Natchez, Miss. The face of Negro Singer Mahalia Jackson seemed to take on a celestial glow as she belted her way through a hymn...
Polish-born Author Singer, 53, a columnist on Manhattan's Jewish Daily Forward, takes a Manichaean view of God and an ironic view of man. In Joy, the Lord of Hosts finally justifies his stern ways to a modern Job. In The Wife Killer, Author Singer touches on a recurrent theme, that vengeance is God's business, not man's. The book's best tale is the title story about Gimpel. who has seven names in all: 'Imbecile, donkey, flax-head, dope, glump, ninny and fool. The last name stuck." Gimpel the Fool...