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...program was divided into three sections. The first, a group of women seen by a nurse on the Champs Elysees, was weaker than the others. It seemed to me that three of the sketches included in this area, the nurse, a fashionable Parisienne, and a lavishly costumed fille de joie, lacked the authenticity of the latter portraits. In these parts Miss Skinner never quite came alive and the humor of their roles was not enough compensation for this lack of real feeling...
...student behavior. Nevertheless, it has a responsibility to point out to student the fact that mass public disturbances in the Square are no longer tolerable. They belong in the age of the flying wedge, John the Orangeman and Bloody Monday, not of the trackless trolley. Expressions of innocent, boyish joie de vivre though they may be, they are a menace to life, limb and property, both of the public and of Harvard students. The Board has a further duty to point out to students the risks they run if they Participate. Even if nobody gets killed, some students are likely...
...instinctive respect for all living creatures seemed strange to his schoolmates, and often it made him sad. ("Youth's unqualified joie de vivre" he once wrote, "I never really knew.") Twice Albert went fishing, but "the treatment of the worms . . . and the wrenching of the mouths of the fishes" were too much for him. Each night, after his prayers with his mother, he added a secret one of his own: "O Heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath, guard them from all evil, and let them sleep in peace...
...Joie Chitwood...
...Joie de Vivre...