Word: joys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the news of D-day reached Lyons, thousands on their way to work danced in the streets, hugged and kissed in Gallic joy, sang La Marseillaise, shouted: "Vive la France! Vive les Allies!" German and Vichy forces dared not interfere just then. Later the police staged a mass roundup...
Among scientific threats to human happiness has long lurked the possibility that somebody would take all the joy out of eating by evolving a diet of pure chemicals. Last week three St. Louis doctors, headed by William Harwood Olmsted, announced that they had done it. The mixture, they admit, is so nasty it has to be given by stomach tube...
...naval air zealots' way of thinking, the only choice for the Navy's top air job is a top-flight airman. Anything else is just "stooging," which is flyers' slang for pooping around. That was the reason joy was only tepid. The man picked to fill McCain's shoes was another naval officer belatedly made into an airman: genial, 60-year-old Vice Admiral Aubrey Wray Fitch...
...poverty and the brutality of the arena, Jesus "sought to bring the inner and outer aspects of the personality into balance by throwing off compulsions, constraints, automatisms." "No one else had spoken of the moral life with fewer negations or with so many positive expressions of power and joy." To Author Mumford, Jesus' healings of the sick are no miracles but works of "psychotherapy" and psychiatry in which the "devils" of neurosis are cast out through "a vital insight into the unconscious...
...Renaissance man's splendid sensual joy and lust for life, as expressed by the 16th-Century Italian painter, Piero di Cosimo, in time degenerated into the jaded 19th-Century taste that produced Manet's famed "boy-like courtesan," Olympia...