Word: joys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture of the little Viennese boy with new shoes [TIME, Dec. 30] expresses more eloquently than anything I have ever seen, or read, or heard, the blessed fruits of giving. The response of sheer unrestrained joy by that little fellow cannot be measured in dollars of giving. To get such a return for his money has the giver getting all the better of the bargain...
...help keep this embodiment of Christmas "alive in hearts enough" (as TIME expressed the hope), I offer my small contribution toward seeing another little face raised in the same radiant joy...
...have been more or less in the same idiom-the expression of murder and barbarism, [but] at Antibes Picasso has closed the infernal cycle of Guernica. Luminous Mediterranean skies replace the black sun of Spain at war. Centaurs play pipes and an inspired woman, a sort of Goddess of Joy, dances in the company of little goats. . . . The message he sends from Antibes is one of hope and grandeur...
Over 200 experts in the fields of government, education, and industry, packing the first session of the conference heard Rear Admiral C. T. Joy, USN, pledge the availability of naval calculators to all scientists, in an opening address...
...women of 1946 (most of them) had their men back, a joy tempered by fears of wars to come. The nations were quarreling again; the year's news was dominated by the opposed efforts of Russia's Molotov and America's Byrnes to reap or hold advantage at the peace tables. The women, who wanted peace in their time and their sons' time, anxiously watched as the conflict over lands and lives and faiths took an intricate, peculiarly masculine shape in treaty clauses, commas and semicolons...