Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Walter. He has the misfortune to have to deliver the final blood-and thunder speech, which is totally out of keeping with the character he builds up. Pam King, a black-haired girl with a voluptuous figure, plays Candy a bit too sullenly, though she occasionally is the joyous little animal she should...
...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 the New England...
Times have changed only slightly since. The revelry has become more sophisticated and subdued but Commencement is still one of New England's grandest spectaculars. What passes for traditional academic pomp mingled with joyous celebration is just as much kindergarten as college: once a year, now for the 312th time, the boys of Harvard are playing a game they call a festive rite, a game interrupted in three centuries only by a smallpox epedemic...
...joyous tale does not end with the hitters. Three Sox moundsmen, none famous, one a rookie, are among the ten best pitchers in the league if you follow the Earned Run Average listings in the Globe every Sunday...
...Conn., for more than 100 cover subjects and their TIME escorts and special guests. On the big evening at the Waldorf, Francis Cardinal Spellman began the program with an invocation that made staff members stand straight. "Come into the midst of us, Holy Spirit of Truth, as on this joyous occasion we celebrate the 40th anniversary of TIME Magazine. May its distinguished name remind us of the greatest of our gifts, the gift of time itself . . . Seizing all life's fleeting opportunities for dedicated service to Thee and our fellow men, for those whose days and nights are busy...