Word: joyous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scholar believes that Jesus was born in December; Smit thinks that the most likely time was the end of August. Not until the 4th century did the early church commemorate the Saviour's birth-and then it shrewdly but arbitrarily picked a date that coincided with a joyous pagan feast...
Ondine is a play about love, an intriguing, graceful exercise in joyous fantasy and at the same time an inevitable tragedy. Ondine herself, the form of pure love and unquestioning affection, is not real, and in the end she cannot exist in the real world. It tantilizes her, but it is alien...
...preside over the independence ceremonies of the newly formed Federation of Malaysia. But that was before Brunei withdrew from the planned federation in a state of pique, leaving Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo to go it alone. Brunei's defection not only left this week's joyous celebrations without a beauty queen but it also took Malaysia out of the running for the Miss Universe contest...
...unique generation of men who have already worked six years at the job of European economic unity. They are the Eurocrats, those scarcely known bureaucrats and technicians who run the Common Market from the new headquarters on Brussels' aptly named (except for the British) Avenue of Joyous Entry. There are 2,450 Eurocrats-one-fourth of them translators who cope with the Brussels Babel of French, Dutch, Italian and German-and their aim is an overall European plan that will eventually govern production, wages and investment capital. In every idiom, they constantly repeat: "We are past the point...
More impressive still was the second song, a mournful dirge for a executed man later proved innocent. The transition from the joyous love of anticipated happiness to the grief of love that can only wail its anguish was smooth; the atmosphere in Sanders changed almost instantaneously...