Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eyes, the needle-clawed female lemur, who daintily dabbed at her petal-thin ears with a drop of her own water as if applying perfume. But the most colorful character in the book is not an animal but the Fon of Bafut, a royal hedonist with a joyous appetite for women, dance, song and drink, in the form of tumblers of Scotch, gin and mimbo, the native palm potion. More than 6 ft. tall and past 80 in age, the gorgeously robed Fon moves through Author Durrell's pages like the mythic club member of some eternally tipsy Olympus...
...candidates had shown alarming strength; five months ago when Dwight Eisenhower flew into Okinawa during his Asian tour, jeering agitators greeted him with placards reading I HATE IKE. Last week, when the ballots of 374,000 Ryukyu voters were finally tallied, Washington began rubbing its eyes in stunned but joyous surprise...
...often have been but is given an unvarying funny-paper treatment. The show, too, has an altogether loose-leaf structure, while the Meredith Willson score is not up to The Music Man's and has nothing as infectious as Seventy-Six Trombones. But it gives a kind of joyous blare to the evening; along the way there is some nice dancing, rowdy in Leadville, chic in Monte Carlo; there are some funny remarks; and from time to time, there is some funny business...
President Pusey, in dedicating the Brattle Street structure, called it "a joyous evening to celebrate." "Many people have dreamed about a theatre building," the President commented, "and we owe deepest gratitude to John Loeb...
...watch Khrushchev bounce down the ramp all smiles. The scattered crowds on the streets to town barely outnumbered the 8,000 cops and nearly 1,000 plainclothesmen assigned to protect Khrushchev from Vienna's big refugee population. Since the Soviet press had already promised a "huge and joyous" reception, Soviet cameramen did what they could; they rounded up a loyal band of local Communists, herded them from stopping place to stopping place, scrambling about to shoot the same few faces from every possible angle. Though they dutifully reported in Pravda that "the center of Vienna has blossomed into smiles...