Word: joyous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accurate high notes. The audience goes wild and demands an encore. From Santiago, Buenos Aires, Vienna and London come frantic pleas for concerts. Backstage, greeting her well-wishers, Beverly sings the obligatory arioso, I Can't Imagine Being Anything But an Opera Singer, while with contrapuntal verve, the joyous chorus adds the hallelujah-like Bubbles, Bubbles, Wasn't It All Worth the Troubles...
When I arrived at my place of initiation, then, my heart was beating fast and I expected wonderful things to happen to me. I removed my shoes at the entrance of the house, as I was told. When the assistant, with her secret, joyous smile, motioned me upstairs, I followed her wordlessly up and into a small bare room, where I was to wait...
...time went by, but I wasn't impatient. Quietly excited, though. Resting in the wicker basket the assistant had given me were my two oranges, clean handkerchief, and six flowers--all necessary for the ceremony. I began to fear that my flowers might wilt, but then the joyous assistant came softly to me, and whispered that I should follow...
...successive days. Humphrey talked in folksy terms about his own political status and the Viet Nam negotiations. Kennedy demanded a foreign policy of "no more Viet Nams," jabbed at Humphrey's "politics of joy" slogan by saying that, considering poverty and other problems, the U.S. "is not a joyous and happy country." Humphrey seemed to get a slightly warmer reception than Kennedy, but the U.A.W. is officially remaining neutral. At week's end in Omaha, Humphrey and Kennedy again shared an audience-Democratic notables at a Jefferson-Jackson dinner-and again McCarthy was elsewhere. It seemed...
...began to dance toward the altar, her arms gracefully beckoning the 1,400 Protestants and Roman Catholics in attendance to join her in worship. By the altar, she performed a symbolic offertory. Later, she danced a joyous finale entitled God Is Light, then twirled daintily back up the aisle and slipped out of the church door...