Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joy Unconfined. In Blair, Neb., the weekly Enterprise carried a classified ad: "LOST: light blue dress night of Share-the-Fun Contest...
SURPRISED BY JOY, by C. S. Lewis. A partial autobiography by the Oxford don, which makes Christianity an exciting intellectual adventure as well as an act of faith. Its description of the road that led from indifference to skepticism to a firm belief in God makes this one of the most graceful and credible "conversion" books in years...
...forget in our fond reminiscing aobut the past, that the present and future are with us, too.") or Edward A. Bacon '20 ("What'll I do, what'll I do,/Now that Gretchen and I are through?") of Lewis P. Mansfield '16 ("We offer eighty years of skill/In putting Joy on Humor's sword...
...terrible thing to see them go," said a Melbourne Hungarian, while a girl athlete sobbed near by. Next day the 45 who had decided to stay in the West climbed into buses to board another plane, bound for freedom. Even for them, there was no joy. Hearts torn in two directions are not quick to gaiety, and at the airport even a champion wrestler was seen to be weeping unashamed...
...realized with a sudden stab of joy that finally I had met a man who was as bored as I was . . . Now Banal was speaking, in his infantile way. "Do you know Monique has never seen the sea?" Then a woman spoke, Anatole's wife. "Why, that's awful that this poor child has never seen the sea. Anatole, darling, you must take her to our little chateau by the ocean. I won't be able to come because I'm redecorating the town house. But there is plenty of food in the frigidaire, and Monique...