Word: joie
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY has been boldly extrapolated from the celebrated James Thurber story. The youngsters have not been cowed by the sanctity of the master, and the clever lyrics, melodically oriented songs and infectious joie de vivre of the cast make this a thoroughly pleasant musical evening...
...could doze in an atmosphere charged with that joie de vivre that must come with the new heterosexual order? Who could sink into a wall-eyed academic stupor when there is girl, rather than feet, in the breeze...
...troops through: Yvonne De Carlo as a Spanish floozy whose secret weapon is flamenco; Lilo Pulver as a brusque, weepy vodkaholic making a case for the U.S.S.R.; Miiko Taka as an ah-so Geisha who offers back rubs and hot saki; and Elga Andersen as a French fille de joie who waives her diplomatic immunity in pajama tops. True love is the Belgian lass (Michele Mercier), a high-minded guide from the Low Countries. Obviously, the movie makes a negligible contribution to world amity and understanding, despite such gimmicks as a walk-on role by U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. Stooped...
...sense of dedication. "I went to work," he says. "I learned to work on the piano for the piano's sake." When he returned to the U.S. for what he calls his "third debut" in 1937, he came as a giant who had transformed his joie de vivre into the strongest alloy of his music...
Fictional voyages of self-discovery are customarily accompanied by a change of outer scenery. If, for instance, the author's aim is to reveal inner darkness, his characters traditionally head for Africa (Conrad, Gide, Paul Bowles). If, on the other hand, the blossoming of a long-repressed joie de vivre is the theme, then sunny Italy will unlock the passion in the tourist's heart (Goethe, Mann, E. M. Forster). But whoever would have thought of th Soviet Union as an emotional catalyst? Well, nobody, until British Satirist Anthony Burgess came along...