Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lies in such paintings as Peasant Digging (see opposite). A realist at heart, he followed Corot's advice always to paint out of doors. Pissarro made no effort to turn the young peasant woman into a monumental symbol, but accepted her as part of the landscape. His real joy, as his broad brush strokes show, was in catching on the spot the midday heat and glitter...
...ceases. A Washingtonian who knows both sums up the difference: "Art Langlie is the right-living, stern-conscienced, Sunday-go-to-meeting Scandinavian. Maggie is the ever-loving, good-time-Charlie Scandinavian come out of the woods on Saturday night for fun and sociability and a yearning to spread joy. Langlie is the voice of political conscience. Maggie is the voice of political service...
...Bernhard flew off to Corfu for a holiday with the Greek royal family. Their loyal subjects (who have been told very little of all that has gone on) were assured by an Amsterdam newspaper that for Juliana and Bernhard "this interlude in the land of classical harmony and joy of living" would mark "the equally harmonious conclusion of a difficult period...
...Blind in Little Rock, where he sang soprano until he was 17. Long before he graduated, in 1936, he had memorized every nuance of all the pop singers of the day. One fellow named Pha Terrell, who was featured with Andy Kirk's Twelve Clouds of Joy, used to let Al sing with the band sometimes when it hit Little Rock. In 1943 Al made the Ellington band, but "I was in the band for two weeks before I knew it." He kept singing as a guest, night after night, until he finally complained that he had to earn...
...Musician Ellington and Manager Mills agreed to go separate ways (Mills has since become a successful music publisher). One of Duke's subsequent adventures was Jump for Joy, which he wrote and produced with a group of Hollywood artists. It was a revue designed to fight Uncle Tomism in the entertainment world, and the show folded after twelve weeks of backstage wrangling. As usual, Duke had written for his own band, and the band was in the pit. "We stayed out there for a while, just barely keeping our heads above water," he says. "But there were not enough...