Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...depth of feeling was as unquestionable as his lack of egotism. "I will swear to you," he wrote to a friend in 1851, "at the risk of seeming even more of a socialist, that it is the human side that touches me most . . . and it is never the joyous side that shows itself to me: I don't know where it is. I have never seen...
...writing to publicly object to House displays of Christmas trees and Christmas decorations. I live in Winthrop House, where we have a Christmas tree and a "Have a Joyous Christmas" sign in the dining hall. I find such decorations offensive and discriminatory...
...displays. All the public schools I have attended have had Christmas trees and Christmas assemblies, and, although we have had a "winter break" and a "spring vacation," they always happened to include Christmas and Easter. For me and for many other people at this University, Christmas is not a joyous holiday--it is a time when we are reminded that the United States is a Christian nation and, as such, excludes...
Tanned and rested, Argentine President Isabel Perón, 44, returned to Buenos Aires last week from the hills of Cordoba after a 32-day holiday of long walks, a little golf and almost no visitors. Loyal Peronistas promptly attempted to turn her homecoming into a joyous re-enactment of the Oct. 17, 1945, rally that forced the Argentine military to free then Colonel Juan Perón from prison. But despite the sentimental significance of the day, no more than 40,000 turned out to hear Mrs. Peron speak. The disappointing turnout was attributed as much to waning enthusiasm...
...runner" was at the village inn. Schweitzer says in his charming childhood memoirs: "Today's young people can't imagine what the coming of the bicycle meant to us. A hitherto undreamed of possibility of getting into nature was opened before us, and I made full and joyous...