Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dominating the tableau of aimlessness, decay and sterile joy is the image that gives the poem its name: the parched desert through which a wanderer struggles in search of an oasis. When he comes upon a chapel in the arid mountains, he significantly finds this symbol of faith broken and deserted-"There is the empty chapel, only the wind's home." But at the deepest point of despair, the rumble of thunder brings promise of rain to the waste land. The poem ends with the Hindu incantation, like the first shower of long-looked-for rain, shantih, shantih, shantih...
...Tories had begun to feel the chill of fear again. From the dead-heat of a few hours before, Labor had slowly and jerkily pulled ahead. A pale-faced Tory official, joy gone dead in his eyes, gasped: "They could win-even...
...press agents have their way, this will be a memorable week for Cheshire cats, Ipana users, and greeting card manufacturers. The idea is extremely simple; it's called "National Smile Week," and the dreamers at the agency want everyone to go around smiling. "Be a Joy Scout!" they smirk. National Smile Week is backed by a Chicago greeting card company which is selling "smile cards" as its contribution to the spreading of cheer...
Those whose taste in sculpture had been formed by that of the Greeks and Renaissance Italians would find such works hard to take. For them, sculpture is primarily a celebration of human pride, grace and joy. Marini's sculpture celebrated humility, awkwardness and sorrow - plus dogged endurance...
...hopes, eventually, to write a syndicated newspaper column and make a movie. "I'd like to do a movie about the joy of flying or the joy in animals or meteorology-something with a great object lesson. People buy my products because they believe that I'm telling the truth. And people like to follow the example of a fellow they believe in, isn't that right? If I could do a movie that would teach kids tolerance and not to be smart alecks, then...