Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting will attempt to discover "how to make our cities nice to look at and a joy to live in," Mary Jacqueline Tyrwhitt, assistant professor of City Planning, said yesterday. "Some of our American cities are pretty horrid," she observed...
...trapped by captivating girl, Ratte's theme is boy thinks girl wants him back, boy sadly deluded. Because Ratte portrays this situation with color and humor, he not only makes his story most readable, but increases the pathos of the situation by the contrast of the intoxicated lover's joy and his impending disillusionment. The story is wonderfully economical for the narrator's observations reveal not only the true nature of the situation, but the essence of his character and the whole of his past experience...
...cast worshiped with 2,000 Russians, mostly elderly women wrapped in shawls, before a big sign reading, GOD is LOVE. Wearing a platinum mink cape, Rhoda Boggs (Lily, the strawberry woman, in the show) sang Sweet Little Jesus Boy. Then, with deep religious feeling, the Negroes sang Christmas carols (Joy to the World) and spirituals (Every Time I Feel the Spirit). By the time they left, many of the Russians were weeping openly. Some said to Moses LaMarr, "God bless you. Merry Christmas. We love you." Not understanding a word, LaMarr solemnly replied, "The same...
Most of them echoed Author Keyes's own womanly questions about the saint: "Did she hear the 'good tidings of great joy' . . . from some kindly neighbor who came back to Nazareth before Mary and Joseph? . . . Did Jesus spend much time with her in the little house where the angel had announced His coming? Did she invite John to stay there, too, so that the small cousins would be company for each other? Was it she who taught Jesus to read?" Author Keyes decided to search out the answers, and the result is just published: St. Anne, Grandmother...
...gold," an eye like an ice pick, and a nylon line that pays out smooth and hauls the suckers in. But Frankie is a man who carries "a 40-lb. monkey on [his] back," and the only way to knock the monkey off is to get a shot of joy in the main vein. He kicks the habit when he does a stretch in stir, and swears off cards, too, when he comes out; he has learned the drums in prison, and he has a chance to try out with a commercial band. But Schwiefka (Robert Strauss) is not letting...