Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knows what would have become of her if her grandmother, surveying the Gothic shambles at Oak Terrace, had not shipped her off to an English boarding school in 1899. Miraculously, it was an enlightened place in which Eleanor blossomed. She excelled at studies, developed poise, and made the joyous discovery that the very traits that bored her family-candor, compassion, energy, an aversion to sham -could be highly valued...
Whenever The Dice Man lapses into missionary zealotry, prepare for rampant naiveté. Anarchy is not the joyous freedom that Rhinehart takes it to be, nor does the cure for civilization's discontents lie in an idolatry. However, the book could be a boon to games-minded hostesses. During a lull at the next party, try serving dice in the martinis...
...periodic visits to Tattile and Mamile in Venice, Mary watched Pound making poetry: "His silence was suspense, a joyous sense of expectation, until he broke into a kind of chant that sometimes went on for hours." Pound was often severe with Mary. When she was still quite small, he drafted an elaborate table of "Laws for Maria." Item: "If she suffers, it is her own fault for not understanding the universe." But on the whole, he was a really nice if distant dad. He bought the child a small flock of sheep, and became her silent partner in a tiny...
...just been put on the market for $29.95, consists of three LPs, five lesson plans and two workbooks-one for the husband, the other for the wife, It also includes two "feeling self mosaics" -jigsawed figures of a man and a woman divided into pieces labeled "ashamed," "anxious," "joyous," or just plain "sexual...
Justice Department, the demonstrators were peaceful and joyous, kind of David Harris-like. People were even singing "We Shall Overcome" again. It was like 1963 all over, as if the Kennedys and Malcolm and King and Evers had not been murdered, as if we all returned to the days when we were pure and innocent and moral and non-violent. You almost expected Phil Ochs and Pete Seeger to come cruising in by helicopter...