Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soiree, an annual affair, had a different spirit this year. Where once his guests had slipped their black limousines into a hidden parking lot on the Accardo property, they now made an open show of their attendance, and the Big Boss's gardens rang with fresh and ominous joy...
...piled high with tracts, books, children's stories and material on such happy thoughts as the "Telegraphic Word Prayer Game" (players use the initials of a negative statement to make a positive one. Example: "My Life Is Miserable Since John Left Me" becomes "Much Love Is Mine So Joy Leads to Miracles"). Most of each day from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. was crammed with talks, meditations, "healing sessions" and song, and the new thinkers, predominantly female and grey-haired, showed staying power that would have delighted Phineas P. Quimby...
...second home. "Isn't it beautiful that Mr. Statler has put this initial 'S' on it for us," she cried. "It stands for Spirit-for soul!" Dr. Ruth E. Chew, in a lecture entitled "Shine, Shimmer, Scintillate," told how she put people on "a diet of joy." By way of an appetizer, she had the audience repeat after her twice: "I am filled with joy; joy, gladness and delight make everything all right." Her joy diet, said Dr. Chew, can heal anything, including cancer...
...been marred by a tragic interlude: Russian Princess Mara Scherbatoff, 48, New York bureau chief of France's weekly Paris Match, was killed when her car, pursuing the lovers down a hairpin road, rammed a tree. But now, at Playwright Miller's rural retreat, joy was unbounded. Mama Miller hauled out her chicken and everybody dug into the wedding feast. In the big cities the headlines were beginning to roar the news, OUR MAN KISSED THE BRIDE, brayed the New York Post in a Page-One banner. "It's the happiest meal I've ever eaten...
...Horror but Joy. For .most Outsiders, such moments of acceptance and reconciliation come, if at all, in fragments of visionary and mystical experience. Such a moment came to T. E. Lawrence in the desert among the Bedouins, when he visualized God as "pure mind." It came to George Fox, who tried to institutionalize it in the Quaker movement, whose members were to be guided by an "inner light." It came to Nijinsky as he made the final entry in his diary: "My little girl is singing: 'Ah ah ah ah.' I do not understand its meaning...