Word: joyousness
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...tigers in the Yard, tigers in furtive conference with Max Keezer, tigers in the bathroom, tigers sleeping in one's bed, tigers wanting to sleep in one's bed, "upstairs, downstairs, in my lady's chamber" everywhere tigers. There are tigers anxious, tigers confident, tigers nonchalant, tigers morose, tigers joyous, tigers hilarious tigers in every stage of preparation for the great climax...
...instructors in music education believe that the primary purpose of any study of music, in public schools or elsewhere, is to get nearer to understanding and feeling what is excellent and noble and really joyous in music. They believe, also, that no person unfamiliar with or unappreciative of the best music, including folk songs and the choral works of such masters as Bach and Brahms, is capable of carrying out that purpose or even of understanding...
When Mr. Davidson is sad he listens to music, when he is joyous he sings or plays some old archaic song. His muse is not one of the Goddesses of Poetry; but rather he bows down before the musical one. For him nature is not a sight; it is a sound, and a melodious and harmonious sound it is. At times some echoes of this sweet soft music creep into his verse. At other times he thinks of it but cannot embody it. Indeed he tells us himself...
...Back to the joyous Alps who call to her aloud...
...fugitive members of his original Bat Theatre of Moscow. It has been an eventful and profitable four years, in which the inimitable Balieff and his company of singers, clowns, and dancers have journeyed from Paris, to London, to America, and back to Paris again, finding everywhere the same joyous welcome...