Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spirit of the earliest Commencement days, as of the early College, was largely chaparoned by theology--the presence of a formidable portion of the local clergy caused those first occasions to be rather pious and somber. But the joyous aspects of graduation increased steadily and by the end of the seventeenth century, commencement had become the main spectacle of New England...
...never saw the U.S. until 1876, learning his art in fashionable Parisian ateliers. This pursuit was largely a pragmatic matter, a way to live, as his friend and fellow expatriate Novelist Henry James would say. His style, tempered by Frans Hals and Velasquez, soon showed an ease of execution, joyous color, and devotion to manipulated reality...
...invitation was a minor intimation of immortality: "The Former Friends of Arthur Schlesinger Jr. invite you to A Gala! Joyous! Exultant! Celebration of his Departure from the Government of the United States of America and the Opening of his New Offices, CASH (Center for the Advanced Study of History). Dinner and Dancing ... 7 o'clock till dawn . . . Many Door Prizes-a Favorable Mention in his History of the Kennedy Administration . . . Come as you were...
...last week, a startling change had come over the city's concierges. They ostentatiously polished brass and industriously sewed rips in the hall carpeting. A tenant's "Bon jour" met with a joyous response instead of surly silence. The concierges suddenly delighted in performing small favors, and mail was distributed in a matter of minutes, not hours. This gracious rebirth of courtesy is an annual event caused by étrennes, the New Year's tips from tenants which ordinarily make up the better part of a concierge's income...
...Painter Barnett Newman tried to keep him out of it. "The.y're laying for you," warned Newman. "You go in there a hero, and you come out a bum." One of Pollock's last major works was 1955's Search, an encyclopedia of his artistry in joyous Christmas colors. Its true thrill is seen best close up: an endless antipasto of textures, oils stained and then swirled into pastes, squiggles and scumbles, flecks and fissures that the viewer's eye wanders among, jerking with the appeal of each tiny element...