Word: joyousness
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...dead-as-the-dodo musicals. Weary of adulation, a famous painter assumes his deceased valet's identity and achieves happiness with a pneumatic widow. As the painter, Vincent Price acts like a berserk semaphore and sings in a mauve whisper. As the widow, Patricia Routledge performs with a joyous professional authority lacking in the score and the show...
Still, in every caricature, there was always some saddening or joyous truth, just as in Wolfe himself; when he could shake whatever demon was riding him, there was a quota of humor, fundamental decency and kindness. Moreover, he packed a mighty literary ambition. He made it plain that he was out to lasso and pin down the Great American Novel. He wanted to force the whole torrent of the U.S. experience between covers, from mean Brooklyn alleys to the lush farms of the heartland, from city slickers to wary countrymen-and for good measure he meant to throw in mountains...
When B.U.'s Eddie Wright eventually got his second goal of the evening at 16:25, Harvard returned to full strength and had no trouble killing the last three and a half minutes, the final 60 seconds dying amid the music of a joyous standing ovation...
Seven Roaring Days. This month, Iran will hold a blowout the likes of which few countries have ever seen. For seven roaring days and seven joyous nights, it will celebrate the coronation of the man responsible for it all: Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, 47, Shahanshah (King of Kings), Aryamehr (Light of the Aryans), and absolute ruler of his nation. It will be history's most belated crowning, for the Shah has already occupied Iran's throne for 26 years. Until now, however, he had steadfastly rejected the idea of a formal coronation. "It is not a source of pride...
...bound to be the most joyous evening that Washington has never experienced. For a tax-deductible contribution of $25 a head, 7,000 elegant socialites are being given an unprecedented opportunity not to attend a charity ball that will not be given this month by Mrs. John Sherman Cooper, wife of the Kentucky Republican Senator. The notion for the no-ball came to Lorraine Cooper as she brooded over ways to cut down the expenses that inevitably erode the take at charity affairs. Having hit on the ultimate cutdown, she sent out embossed non-invitations describing the charitable work being...