Word: joyousness
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...closing sections, he calls up a picture of (old) Charlie Marx, wordless and forbidding, just beginning to cast his lengthened shadow, seen alike by the idle aristocrat and by the workingman. The Philistines, dancing upon the roof at Gaza, were evidently not more ill-fated than the joyous throngs who idled down the years after the first Versailles, unconscious that their house was tottering to its final destruction...
...curriculum of "projects" is often questioned. The ideals of progressive education seem to be as vague and the reforms as necessary as Professor Dewey left them many years ago, but the faults of the system have been largely discovered by now. The dependency of the success of these joyous grammar schools on the personal attributes of the teachers, the ease of loafing, the tendency for children to turn to various forms of artistic self-expression without finishing what they have started, a form of child dilettantism; the need of occasional old-fashioned and naturally irritating bouts with grammar and algebra...
...well to admire. Below the glory of this reticulated ceiling, effulgent with the light of a thousand candles, lived and worked the other unfortunate inmates of the vast and awe-inspiring edifice. Unfortunate they were indeed to be called, for not one of them who appeared smiling and joyous but wore his smile as a mask to counterfeit his humour, and feign a satisfaction which in reality he had no hope of possessing. Indeed, each as he worked was occupied with such melancholick reflections as might have befitted Panterias the sage, when the future course of his life was revealed...
...Joyous Johannesburghers reveled last week in "the biggest boom since 1895." While South Africa's currency, recently detached from the gold standard (TIME, Jan. 9), slowly declined, South Africa's gold mining shares doubled & tripled on Johannesburg's big board, carried other common stocks up with them in a gaudy "inflation boom...
...Joyous co-operation," concluded General von Schleicher "is asking a good deal in these critical days...