Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frenzy straight from the paint tubes onto one-tone backgrounds. ¶ Edouard Pignon, who went from coal mining and a Citroen assembly line to painting Picasso-flavored landscapes, now adds a lyrical personal tempo to his semi-abstractions. A neat, natural talent whose 1957 oils convey the Mediterranean joy, light and life of a little resort near Marseilles, Pignon is currently on view both in Paris' Galerie de France and Manhattan's Perls Galleries...
Charles Munch once commented: "It is a joy to make music with them." To Woody, a greater joy is the knowledge that, partly thanks to his group, no college glee club worthy of the name can any longer get by with Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral and Champagne Charlie...
...opera's fascinating conflict develops between Moses, whose heart knows the Word his tongue cannot utter, and his brother Aron, who speaks glibly but substitutes for Moses' harsh and humble vision of God the opiate of a comforting father figure. To Aron, God is joy, to Moses He is awe. Moses' anguished faith can admit only of a God who is "omnipresent, unperceived and inconceivable.'' Aron seeks only "a vision of highest fantasy" and his quest leads to the abomination of the Golden Calf...
...quality of T.R. that added the vital plus to his program was that he had learned, during long and full years of growth and experience, joy and hardship, that compromise is no substitute for decisiveness, that inspiration is made out of specific minute-by-minute leadership. He had also absorbed out of a long career of professional politics, precincts and patronage a healthy notion about how the presidency ought...
...schedule, Ondrej flies into a jealous rage, reveals in a drunken soliloquy that he is the murderer, later confesses publicly. Katrena retires with her bastard child to live with old Stelina, father of her lover, and the chorus, as commentator on the action, concludes that "life sings of joy and sorrow...