Word: joie
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bontche, a poor man's J.B. who has taken life in the teeth without ever uttering a word of protest, Paul Richards shows his versatility. If it was joie de vivre before, it is mal de vivre now. Without saying a word he conveys utter abjectness, outdoing J.B. himself, who at least had fond memories. Arriving in heaven, Bontche is judged by God to be so innocent that anything in heaven is his for the asking. What Bontche asks for, and the way in which he asks for it, are so humble that God and the angels cannot but hang...
...Band, says that the future promises to be just as exciting. The Band members, like Hagaman, seem to realize its novel responsibility to the University and to the music public. Because of this responsibility, many, including some in the Band, would like to eliminate the Band's joie de vivre and its occasional use of off-color humor. Others argue that the atmosphere of fun and humor in the Harvard Band gives it its inimitable character...
Perhaps the only real offer of assistance comes from a letter printed as Correspondence. In exaggerated terms, the letter calls for a return to "constructive" things, i.e., "pep rallies," "active participation in social clubs," "joie de vivre" and like that stuff. We should give up our search for "aggressive outlets," our traces of "residual bitterness" and "sibling rivalry" for a more "healthy attitude." However, the answer to that challenge is simple: So, who wants to be "healthy" in a sick society...
During half a century, the hand of the master has proved itself again and again, faster than the eye of its public. Now, we are shown a Picasso of extreme spontaneity, of seemingly unbounded joie de vivre, of almost casual exuberance; a Picasso who may have at last come to believe too completely in his own image of infallibility. The question is that of how much exuberance is due Picasso because he is Picasso, and how much his latest production justifies itself on its own terms...
Romance, therefore, stays in the cocktail lounge for the most part. Rather one sees sordid slums, drab barracks in the oil fields, or one senses an incipient brutality at times, and a certain fatalism in the people mixed with an unquenchable joie de vivre...