Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chance to take part in history the way we did." Senior Writer Ed Magnuson, who wrote this week's Watergate article, has turned out 21 cover stories on the conspiracy. Said he: "This story has been both arduous and satisfying for a journalist. But it yields no joy. High officials who used lawless means to manipulate the public they were supposed to serve have been stopped. But it was too close a call...
...Find Joy in the Bible...
...modern philosopher had told me again and again that I was in the right place, and I still felt depressed even in acquiescence. But I had heard that I was in the wrong place, and my soul sang for joy, like a bird in spring...
...Islands (1963), and in 250 poems published in small journals, he comments on aspects of man's agonies, simple pleasures and the contradictions in his relationship to nature. Some of the poems are lighter, however. A sample entitled "Reciprocation": "It would be odd/ If a spring took no joy/ In beholding hope gush freshly,/ Or if a basaltic mountain/ Did not rest on the comfort of watching/ Human patience in place...
...become my dealer, not mine.") He is a music lover who each year organizes a Louis Armstrong memorial at the law school. The Texas-born scholar, who still has his drawl, also plays the trumpet and "a pretty good cowboy harmonica." A lifelong devotee of Chesterton's joy at being in the wrong place, Black began his scholarly career as a Greek major at the University of Texas. Why Greek? "My guess is that it was to be dramatic," he says now. "When people asked you and you told them, that sort of stopped the conversation...