Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chambers of the Court, he carried off his labors with a jauntiness of spirit that disguised the meticulous care of his note-taking off the bench and his analysis of the issues." Freund said of Holmes. He summed up his impression of the man by observing that "the joyous freedom of his mind, the greatness of his life, and the high way he took his mortality made him an exemplar for a time of searching...
Heir to comfortable if not princely means, Winthrop's one abiding passion was his treasures. His wedded life less than joyous, and estranged from his two daughters by his refusal to bless their marriages. Winthrop loved best the private contemplation of his paintings and carvings. But he also felt a strong obligation to posterity. In his reply to a request from the Smithsonian Institution that he leave his collection to the nation. Winthrop said, "I am not so much interested in the general public as I am in the Younger Generation whom I want to reach in their impressionable years...
Tension, Tension. If his genius is joyous insanity, his approach is in painstaking earnest. He spends more than a year laboring on each script. "What you're after," he explains, "is to make a Mount Whitney of a picture. What you settle for is a wonderful snowball." The time in between, he says, is agony -"compression, remolding and restructuring-tension, tension, tension...
...Netherlands, where its sister company Philips provided its usual superior pressings, then shipped them back to be marketed as Golden Imports. Worth the premium price? Indeed these performances are, especially since they sound better than the originals. Not even Munch equaled Paray's way with Chausson's joyous heartbreaker. The concerti grossi are among the finest works of the now shamefully neglected Bloch, and Hanson reads them with snap and vigor...
...Ford cannot take the joyous reception at face value. Despite Seoul's modern high-rise buildings and well-clothed, well-fed people, South Koreans are increasingly restive under the repressive rule of President Park Chung Hee. In an attempt to stamp out dissent, he issued a series of decrees this year that almost completely gagged the Korean press. Further, his police rounded up more than 250 critics of the regime; some 200 still remain in prison...