Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Austria the Hungarian government had removed the barbed wire, the mines, and the dogs from the border--it had been impossible to get through before. The border zig-zags, and we got into Austria and back into Hungary several times, but finally we crossed it. It wasn't a joyous thing at all; just crossing that no-man's-land. It was rather sad-leaving behind everything...
...policy that all the news is fit to print-even when it means running a story from one column to the preceding one. The paper may well be the only one in the world with three separate editorial pages, each allowed to pursue its own vendettas and crusades with joyous disregard for overall policy. Thus, in one issue, in addition to Cabot's own editorial-page salute to the paper's founder, his colleague J. B. Martinez wrote an editorial in the paper's two-page Spanish section, bewailing the defeat of the federal school-aid bill...
...exulted New York Unionist Peter J. McGuire, who originated the idea of Labor Day in 1894 on the joyous occasion of the first U.S. legal holiday honoring the workingman. During the next six decades, U.S. labor grew mighty beyond Carpenter McGuire's wildest dreams. But this week there is little reason to shout hosannas. Instead, at the time of Labor Day, 1957, organized labor is disturbed by its recent past, perplexed by its present, taking anxious stock of its future...
...rest of her life. Unless she can recover completely, Cary must never know what became of her. She disappears into a settlement house to devote her shattered life to teaching music to underprivileged children. Even those who adore youngsters blindly may wince at the subsequent digression into a joyous interracial sea of gap-toothed, freckled faces, cutely squalling songs off-key-the sort of kiddies' night program that could break up a P.T.A. meeting. When Cary and Deborah at last clinch again on Christmas Day, it is a miracle that the juvenile choir does not burst in shrieking Away...
Panofsky, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, was greeted: "Joyous scholar whose perceptive eye helps us to see the creative human spirit in Western culture...