Word: joying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still attend out of habit or as a means of social climbing; if they seem contemptible to the real opera lover, they are abundantly punished by having to sit through hours of music they don't really enjoy. Some come as cultists: just as bullfight aficionados find macabre joy in waiting for the matador to be gored, operagoers can wait in horrible human fascination for the soprano to go flat at the end of Vissi d'arte or to fall downstairs in the mad scene of Lucia. In its own way, by the nearly impossible demands it makes...
Moments of joy, moments of sorrow...
...Amazon medical mission of the Peruvian gun boat Loreto [Sept. 17]. For more than a year Project HOPE has been cooperating in this Government program through the services of two American nurses, Barbara Schwenk and Betty Carlson. Like the Loreto, our ship is not exactly "the pride and joy of anyone's navy." The Cayetana Heridia is a 50-ft. converted boat, not handsome, but a joy to hundreds of thousands in the jungles of the Amazon in Loreto state. Miss Carlson lives aboard the craft under less than adequate conditions, works from 5 a.m. until 11 p.m. daily...
Western military observers, who have been as frustrated as newsmen in getting to the front lines, are not at all convinced. Contrasting the claims of both sides, one expert said, "the figures just don't match-one or the other must be totally off." And, despite the joy in New Delhi at its army's great tank victory, the awkward fact was that Pakistan still held Kasur...
With the furniture still being moved in, however, Torontonians were in no mood to cast too fine an eye on their new joy and pride. A poll indicated that nine out of ten were enthusiastic. Typical was the response of one home-town girl back from Italy: "Just looking at that building makes me proud." And as for incumbent Mayor Philip Givens, he could barely contain his pride. "It's unusual, unique, daring, bold," he declared. "It typifies the spirit of Toronto. It's a smasheroo...