Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Serkin's eight-year-old son Peter suffers little from such retarded appreciation of music. Recently, after hearing his father and other musicians repeat the last movement of a Mozart concerto at a chamber-music concert as a joyous encore, Peter worriedly asked Serkin: "Gee, Pop, who goofed...
...government issued a statement that it "welcomed the possibilities which now appear of ensuring for Morocco a calm, orderly evolution of its destiny in permanent cooperation with the renewed framework of France." In Morocco, where Ben Youssef has become in exile a hero he never was in residence, joyous nationalists bought lambs, chickens and goats to fatten up for slaughter when Ben Youssef returns. At week's end the French government itself bowed to the inevitable and formally decided that the man they had exiled so peremptorily two years ago could return to Morocco's vacant throne when...
Argentines responded to the new climate with joyous tumult. At Buenos Aires' Teatro Cómico one night, Lola Membrives, an actress Juan Perón had decorated, was hooted from the stage with the raucous cry, "Give back the medals...
John Paul Stapp is the son of my colleague, Missionary Charles F. Stapp. Knowing something of the joyous humor and the tenacious spirit of his good father, the character of his saintly mother, I could better understand the practical philosopher, the generous-hearted doctor and the scientist, who does not count his life dear unto himself, if only he can live up to his self-chosen ideals...
Curfew in Rosario. Amid the joyous uproar it was easy to forget that some Argentines were sorry to see Juan Perón go. The grievances recited by General Lonardi-that Peron subverted the laws, violated constitutional rights, mismanaged the economy, packed the courts, burned churches and permitted vast graft-were all true enough. But Peron also gave organized labor, which the old. established parties had never bothered to court, a new sense of dignity and importance-that was the real secret of his success...