Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Against Evil," O'Casey voices his deepest conviction: "Laughter is wine for the soul . . . Once we can laugh, we can live. It is the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living ... It is odd how many seem to be curiously envious of laughter, never of grief . . . The saying is all wrong-it should be 'Grieve and the world grieves with you; laugh and you laugh alone...
...their ways are closer to the earth: through liquor, prostitutes, and poetry. But they too cannot remain alone in the fog or in the clubs and bars very long, but are drawn back to the white-haired woman, once beautiful, who is their wife and mother, and their grief. And when they return to the house, to unhappiness and sordid squabbling, she is glad: "I was so relieved and happy when you came, and grateful to you. It's very dreary and sad to be here alone in the fog with night falling...
...most readers inoperative. Even admitting that his voracious appetite for literary experience gives words a peculiar power, and that his "humdrum, prosaic happiness" of childhood makes the image of frozen nordic mythology powerful, even then I must doubt that many have experienced this thing which is at once unhappiness, grief and joy, for which he "would not exchange all the world's pleasures...
...Tomorrow, but it opens today, which brings tears sooner. Susan Hayward finds "Grief spurs the alcohol habit" but thankfully "Real help comes from 'Bert', an ex-alcoholic (Eddie Albert) who gives her a tortuous 'drying out.'" Look magazine loved it. At the Astor...
...most difficult, but it held no terrors for Soprano Farrell. During rehearsal her attitude was playful. She kidded the French horn player for a minute burble, grinned delightedly at the violins when they produced a soaring harmony. While her voice was deep in Medea's wells of grief, jealousy, and hatred, she artlessly combed her hair for a press photographer. In the performance, however, she threw herself into the deeply demanding music, sang with power and beauty of tone that gave her audience chills. "They say it is hard," she said. "I think Bach is harder because I have...