Word: joyousness
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Peers' Delight. Well, actually, not all that unknown. Vogue last month devoted four pages to Photographer Irving Penn's black-and-white studies of fineboned, long-tressed Amanda from the shoulders up, and last year gave eight pages in color, titled "The Young Joyous Life," to Amanda and her 23-year-old Harvard and Columbia Law School student husband, S. Carter Burden Jr. For in the judgment of her peers, Amanda is a delight. A stepdaughter of CBS President William Paley, her mother is Babs Paley, one of Boston's famous Gushing sisters, herself on the best...
...smaller parts varied widely in quality. As well as playing Mosquito, a sort of Andalusian sprite, Wendy Miller took two bit parts and was delightfully joyous in all of them. Frederick Davis, Larry Gonick, Ken Sateriale, and Peter McKenzie, as villagers of all sorts, ranged from fair to unfortunate...
...grandson in Colorado. "I like your appreciation of the mountains," he said. "They are made for your nose and my nose, for your eyes and my eyes. There are so many new experiences in life. Life is a serious thing for some people, but it can also be joyous if lived with common sense...
Henry Agard Wallace's life was not a singularly joyous one. Nor, despite exceptional intelligence and roots planted deep in Iowa soil, had it always been governed by common sense. Yet when the former Vice President died in a Danbury, Conn., hospital last week at 77, consumed by a rare, wasting neuromuscular ailment known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, his ideas and ideals had long since been woven into American life, his grand illusions all but forgotten. In the 17 years since he campaigned for the presidency as a candidate and captive of the Communist-dominated Progressive Party, Wallace...
...Dickey had learned her lessons well. She took thousands of gripping war pictures-many of wounded and dying men. It was as if she had a compulsion to make the home front aware of the miseries and the glory of war, of the "eternal, incredible, appalling, macabre, irreverent, joyous gestures of love for life, made by the wounded...