Word: joys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, Constantin Fotitch, short, shy and excitable Yugoslav Minister, rushed to see Sumner Welles, came out shining-eyed to cable his joy to King Peter II over "Your Majesty's ascent to the noble throne. . . ." Mr. Welles, less austere than usual, received the press, told the newsmen of the latest message to the U. S. Minister to Yugoslavia: that under the terms of the Lend-Lease Act, President Roosevelt would be able to send material aid to nations resisting aggression. It was a promise to the new Yugoslav Government that it could count...
...this curious disorder, Dr. Cleckley has coined a fancy name: semantic dementia-meaning inability to grasp the ordinary meaning of life as lived by human beings. It is as though, behind the mask of sanity, the emotional mechanism had collapsed, leaving these semi-suicides incapable of love, joy, sorrow, aspiration, regret. When examined in hospitals, they are often alert, bright, cheerful, amiable, sometimes haughty and aloof; but they usually think very highly of themselves, are always wholly callous to the distress they cause others. To the knowing psychiatrist, their eloquent admissions of error and promises to reform are catchwords which...
...Moberg understands the peasant's life too, but does not sympathize. He has ideas for the country side of the future. But Moberg the writer is too strong for Moberg the ideologue. Compared with his mean but strong and realistic peasants, there is a sloganeering and strength-through-joy unreality about Knut Toring's Young People's Society and their cooperative commonwealth. Both have high humanitarian motives, but they spring from the same cause that makes Knut a half-baked hero - as bookish boy, as self-righteous editor, as crusading cooperator, Knut is a good deal...
...little volume is designed for male convalescents. The prints are suitable for framing and will be a joy to the hearts of all sick men. But all connoisseurs of fine works of art will be hoping for the day when Dahl brings out a book more representative of the talent that has produced "The Bicycle Boys...
...most countries the start of a war is the signal for inhibitions to slip gently down over the shoulders. Strong-through-joy Nazi Germany, however, frowns on undisciplined enjoyment, and for the last 18 months gaiety has been regulated almost out of existence. But last week came a sign that even the Germans must relax to shake off the jitters of war as reports arrived of ten days of hoopla in the Bavarian Alps...