Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...music followed the text with the eagerness of a revenue officer: now glorious in a joyous sunburst at the words "United States," now pinched at the mention of old age, now prattling giddily about estimated taxes and exemptions. A quintet reached heights of eloquence as it dwelt antiphonally on the words: "You can deduct your mother-in-law," only to be interrupted by the full chorus in a biting "But!", which led into more fine print, misterioso...
...Central Intelligence Agency. Between Dulles and Castillo Armas, U.S. Ambassador John Peurifoy (now envoy to Thailand) passes out greenbacks to eager Guatemalan soldiers. As presumably downtrodden workers load a banana boat, and the battered corpses of little children lie unnoticed underfoot, Archbishop Verolino, the papal nuncio, blesses the joyous scene...
...Barber's 20-minute work used as its text none of Kierkegaard's intricate philosophizing, but some simple and often beautiful prayers which Composer Barber culled from the preacher's writings. The work begins with plain chant, moves on to orchestral fortissimos. a restrained soprano solo, joyous choral passages and occasional Dies Irae trumpet blasts. But the overall effect is quiet, without either the sweetness or the grandeur expected of religious music. It is clean rather than austere. But at its best, the music matches the tender earnestness of the prayers' poetry...
...London to study art, she came back with an incomprehensible bad habit-smoking cigarettes. Trailing ; thin plume of smoke, Emily escaped again, this time to Paris. In Paris she felt "like a pine tree in a pot," but learned to paint in what she called "the despised, adorable, joyous, modern...
...Donald Soper, 51, such strenuous witness is the only hope of Christianity and Methodism. When he was elected president of the British Methodist Church last July, he called, in his acceptance speech, upon his fellow Methodists for "greater adventure in open-air evangelism . . . lively, informed, joyous . . . work and worship." He continued the lunch-hour meetings at Tower Hill, where he has been preaching his vigorous version of socialist-pacifist Christianity for the past 26 years, and did his best to follow founder John Wesley's example of making all England his parish...