Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shrieking the Japanese equivalent of "Oh, my gosh!" Tokyo Fashion Model Akiko Kojima. 22, exuded sheer joy at the happy news. She was the new Miss Universe, the first Asian ever to take the crown in the international beauty contest, held last week for the eighth year in Long Beach, Calif. Burbled Akiko over her fast-breaking curves (37-23-38): "I am floating on a cloud and living a dream!" Overwhelmed by new-found fondness for the U.S., she also announced that she wants to live in the U.S. eventually, raise a family, be "a lovely wife...
...disastrous scene: the great, gloomy canyon, the dashing crowds and distraught faces. That lithograph is now in the Philadelphia Museum, and other pictures by James N. Rosenberg hang in no fewer than 20 U.S. museums. Yet Rosenberg has always remained an amateur in spirit. He paints for the sheer joy of it in a highly emotional style, blandly ignoring the arrows of sophisticates who find his art old-fashioned and crude...
...sought, and seek, to penetrate." Yet he does not confuse himself with the master. Of his own pictures, says Rosenberg: "Whatever their fate, I am content. My landscapes are magic carpets on which I have flown from a world embittered by fear, hate and greed to regions of peace, joy and beauty. For which I humbly give thanks...
...developments, Wall Street began to sweat. Major steel shares worried off several points, and the Dow-Jones index of industrial stocks dipped from 663.56 to 657.13-despite the fact that steelmakers are expected to report high earnings in the next fortnight. To others, the strike was a cause for joy: foreign steel producers heavily stepped up steel shipments to the U.S., hoped to make strong inroads at the idling industry's expense...
...sword, threatening to divide the boy Giton. The most sustained satire of the volume describes a lavish dinner at the mansion of Trimalchio, wealthy and flatulent onetime slave. He presents each outrageous new dish-a roast sow. for instance, with a bellyful of live thrushes-displaying all the joy of a labor racketeer showing off the power ashtrays on his Cadillac. The guests snicker at Trimalchio's ostentation-but their faces are smeared from the food they have choked down...