Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blessing of Tunisia's nationalists was less certain. With their religious festival, Aid el Kebir, upon them, crowds gathered in the streets, waiting for Neo-Destour to decide whether the holiday should be celebrated with joy, or with reserve. At last the word spread through the bazaars: celebrate with joy...
After downing a lemonade, Colonel Nasser spoke triumphantly over Cairo radio: "Fate has stored this day for glory." Cairo radio itself waxed lyrical: "O Free and Glorious, it pleases the Egyptian radio at this historic moment, the moment of happiness, joy, dignity and freedom . . . to inform you . . . [that we have] cast away the last fetter on . . . glorious independence...
...hours later Mendès rode through the heavily guarded streets of Tunis. In the vast crowd under the broiling sun women shouted, "Yo, yo, yo!"-the old Moslem chant of joy. When Mendès stepped down before the palace of the 72-year-old Bey, Sidi Mohammed el Amin, the Bey caused sugared almonds to be cast under the Frenchman's feet. Mendès read out his plan to give Tunisia the internal freedom and autonomy that its nationalists have long and ardently coveted, while safeguarding the rights of the French colons (settlers) and France...
...papers composed and written by Spinoza came to be read all over the Western world. When he died in 1677, the man who wrote that "our greatest joy exists in our love of God, and . . . every love, of necessity, results from the acknowledgment of God" had also helped give philosophy a turn that is still felt in many fields. He believed that the churches must be subject to the state, led the way to the "higher criticism" of the Bible and even developed a theory of emergent evolution. He also supplied a collection of phrases that have worn down...
...post and won in a somber canto. History is full of tragic artists, but Leopardi differs from such as Mozart and Keats in that where they were struck by tragedy while in pursuit of happiness, Leopardi was so consistently unhappy that he positively winced when he was struck by joy...