Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before the Harvard wrestling team could finish celebrating its best season in history, the joyous screams of victory turned into groans of dismay as the Crimson was stripped Wednesday of its first Ivy League title because of a technical weight violation in a meet last month. The ruling by Ivy League commissioner Jim Litvac changed Harvard's 24-16 triumph over Columbia on February 13 into a 22-20 loss, giving the Lions a 4-0 1 record in the League, and dropping Harvard into a three-way tie with Yale and Cornell for second place...
Joan Collins and Farley Granger were singing. Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon were singing. Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh, Joel McCrea and Frances Dee, Don Ameche and Alice Faye, Howard Keel and Jane Powell: all raised their voices in joyous song. But Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton were struck dumb, doing their best to look as if they'd just slid down a laundry chute into the Twilight Zone...
...Major (1975) in its formal structure. (And why not? Gershwin's concerto was one of the models for Ravel's Concerto in G, on which the ballet In G Major is set.) But if the Gershwin concerto is not a pro found work, it is still joyous jazz-age jeu d 'esprit that transcends its source - bringing honor to both George Gershwin and Jerome Robbins...
SING HEAVENLY MUSE, sing strong and clear, Of Yules joyous and fair--Yules without peer; Celebrate families near and families far, Or loved ones held tight' neath a bright Christmas star; Why weep you muse? What tales do you tell? Do give us your news 'fore the midnight bell. His brow furrowed deep, his countenance dour, The Christmas muse gave us a look more than sour. "I'll tell you my story of Christmas '81, And spare you the merriment, feasting and pun. Our journey begins in D.C.--Washington, (Where Santa brings coal more often than fun) The New Right...
...Bienvenido! trumpeted Diario 16, a Madrid daily, in joyous welcome. To the applause of hundreds who had gathered at Madrid's Barajas Airport, Iberian Airlines Flight No. 952 touched down safely at 8:30 one morning last week with its priceless cargo. Stepping from the plane, Spanish Culture Minister Iñigo Cavero emotionally proclaimed: "The last exile has returned home today...