Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Murrow's look, the look of an intelligent man of good will who has encountered too little cause for joy and too much for gloom-if this look can be described as "hangdog," what a ragtag pack of mongrels inhabits our world today...
...listening to American jazz (old Bessie Smith records) in their rented Manhasset, N.Y. home. "I've had too many years of rushing around from hotel to hotel and town to town and waking up alone in the morning." At 31, Kay Kendall says: "It's a joy for me to have a home, dogs and husband-not necessarily in that order...
...Sermon on the Mount. Selfishness is the highest good, the spirit of sacrifice the worst evil. In shrill outcry against government and religion, Author Rand defines taxes as "protection money" paid to "gangsters," and the doctrine of Original Sin as responsible for destroying Man's "reason, morality, creativeness, joy." She frenetically tries to spiritualize materialism-to set up a kind of materialist morality in which "money is the root of all good" because it stands for man's creativity. The best man is "a heroic being with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with...
...planned to celebrate WEEP's christening by playing only one record all day, Perry Como's Just Born. In picking a new name for his "general market" station, Tannen combed the dictionary before deciding that WEEP held all sorts of possibilities: "A surefire slogan: 'WEEP for joy.' I can call myself the WEEP veep; we'll have a traveling car called the WEEP jeep; and, my God, think of what we can say when we sign off: 'And now, for the next twelve hours you won't hear a peep out of WEEP...
...second of losing their jobs. Under all the comic routine is couched quite a powerful satire of the illogical complexities of the modern economy, quite beyond the good will of the participants. Mr. Guiness is at at his very best, never overplaying but by quietly alternating shy smiles of joy and perplexity he manages to put each scene across with convulsing hilarity...