Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bannered with the words of the Apostle Paul: "In Christ there is neither male nor female." The crowd, some 1,500 people who had packed the church to witness the ordination of eleven new Episcopal priests, jubilantly sang and prayed. But a few in the throng were anything but joyous. When Bishop Daniel Corrigan asked if there was "any impediment" to the ordinations, five Episcopal priests took the microphone to reply...
...audience for the play was postgraduate, middle-aged, and middle-browed--people interested in the 1930's and 1940's of their joyous youths devoid of all those sticky, irritating events occurring on the Continent. If this is your perspective, go and, once there, find out if the cognac is real...
...joyous reception in the Middle East and the assault on the prosecutorial mood of Watergate by Henry Kissinger in Salzburg undoubtedly gave President Nixon a hefty public relations lift last week in his struggle for survival. But at home, the impeachment process pushed on, producing revelations that in a less sensation-surfeited time would probably have stolen the nation's attention from the traveling presidential party. The new evidence solidly supported the already strong case that Nixon had engaged in a conspiracy to conceal his active role in the Watergate coverup...
...Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, the heavy iron gates were trampled down by a crying, shouting mob. The homecoming Israelis who debarked from the DC-6 chartered by the International Red Cross were literally passed hand over hand above the crowd to joyous relatives. Attending dignitaries, led by retiring Premier Golda Meir and her successor Yitzhak Rabin, had to scramble for their safety as well as their dignity. At Damascus International Airport, meanwhile, 10,000 delirious people, ignoring streams of water played on them from fire-engine hoses, broke through cordons of paratroopers who attempted futilely to hold them back...
...citation: "Her joyous personality, glorious voice, and deep knowledge of music and drama bring delight to her audiences and distinction...