Word: joying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Microscopic Eyes. Least known of all is Rodolphe Bresdin. Redon accepted him as a master, wrote that "his power lay in imagination alone. He never conceived anything beforehand. He improvised with joy." Victor Hugo and Baudelaire also admired him, but the public ignored him. He was found dead one day in 1885 in a cold garret in Sèvres, almost as unknown as he was the day he was born...
...Uncle Kennedy." The trip's first stop was Puerto Rico, where Governor Luis Mufioz Marin had given schoolchildren the day off and issued a proclamation calling on all citizens to "celebrate with joy." Lining the observation decks at San Juan airport, a flag-waving crowd of 5,000 roared as the President, followed by Jackie in a white wool coat, stepped from the plane,, "Puerto Rico," he said into the inevitable microphones, "serves as an admirable bridge between Latin America and North America. You have served to make it easier for us to understand each other." Along...
...which the chief dynamic is "quite simply: more." The once lusty word "excellence," writes Harvard Psychologist David C. McClelland, now means only "the ability to take examinations and get good grades in school." As alarmists see it, a strictly academic "meritocracy" is breeding bloodless youngsters with no real joy in life, love or learning...
...beauty of carols that somehow sound best in the snow outside somebody's front door at night; the tinkling bells on the live sheep in the village créche, and the clink of coins in the kettles set up for the poor; the thousand different squeals of joy that children invent...
...goodwill and joy, joy and goodwill," chuckled Bob Slate. That's all he would...