Word: joying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buoys moored 1,000 ft. away carried transponders to repeat sonar waves sent to them underwater. Pilot Ernie Cantu watched a sonarscope showing the ship's position in relation to the fixed buoys. When Cuss I tended to get out of position, Cantu worked a wheel and a joy stick that changed the speed and direction of the four propellers and so kept the ship accurately over the drill hole. The trick is not easy. "It's like rubbing your belly with one hand in one direction," said Cantu, "and your head with the other hand...
...Dreadful Joy. There has been a kind of five-phase decline of religion via pseudo religion, as Fitch sees it. Man began with God, "the only true faith," and then switched to the surrogate faiths of Nature, Humanity, Society (in the form of nationalism) and finally the Self. Today self-worship is in acute crisis, argues Fitch, and "atheism is at the end of its tether...
Judith Kegan's article on "Hasidism and Neo-Hasidism" seems to me to overestimate contemporary student interest in and enthusiasm for this 18th century Jewish religious-mystical movement. As in the pietistic Protestant sects, Hasidism's adherents were commanded to pray to God with enthusiasm, joy, and ecstasy ("More pleasing to God is the stammering of a whole soul than learned prayers said in pride, or without heart...
...built his Polaroid Corp. into a company that employs 2,500, had 1960 sales of $99.4 million, and has given him and his family a paper fortune of more than $143 million. But Land has never let money, success or corporate detail interfere with his first love: the joy of discovery...
...movements. Where virtually all other playwrights were committed to realism or surrealism. Fry wrote romantic and imaginative drama; where poetry had been banished from the stage so severely that even T. S. Eliot toned his verse plays down to almost imperceptibly heightened prose. Fry flashed his poetry with the joy of a juggler...