Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like soldiers everywhere, Communist Czechoslovakia's troops enjoy getting letters from their girls.* Last week Czechoslovakia's Military Enlightenment Officer attempted to take all the joy out of mail call. "The stuff you used to write your girls," he told the soldiers, "is not proper for a member of the people's democratic army." Instead of "vain talk of love," he continued, "you must tell your girls about the experience of being built into new human beings for service in a new and stronger people's army. Tell them to write you about their experiences...
...comparing the average comic strip to Li'l Abner is like comparing an ordinary cocktail to a dipperful of Capp's own Kickapoo Joy Juice, a liquor of such stupefying potency that the hardiest citizens of Dogpatch, after the first burning sip, rise into the air, stiff as frozen codfish. Capp tries to give his readers not only a daily belly laugh, satirical Cappian comment on politics, sex, law enforcement, the housing situation and human rapacity, but surrealistic gobbets of action, mystery, horror and adventure as well...
...Hampshire, a big, comfortable modernized farmhouse on 65 acres of rolling land, sees him only at irregular intervals. The farm, which he enjoys in a baffled sort of way but can seldom stand for more than a few days at a time, is Mrs. Capp's particular pride & joy and is headquarters for their three children, Julie Ann, 17, Catherine Jan, 14, and Colin Cameron, 6. Though Capp sometimes talks his wife into spending stretches of weeks in Manhattan, she is a woman "who gets sleepy at n o'clock" and pines for the New England countryside. Capp...
...Fearful Joy, by Joyce Cary. The life & times of Tabitha Baskett; a new novel by an Englishman who writes in the old meat-and-marrow tradition of English fiction (TIME...
...Fearful Joy, by Joyce Gary. The life & times of Tabitha Baskett; a new novel by an Englishman who writes in the old meat-and-marrow tradition of English fiction (TIME...