Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foot peasant boys dodged fat businessmen in Citroëns and Fords. In the blue-tiled throne room of the palace, old (73) Bey Sidi Mohammed el Amin, hereditary ruler of Tunisia, rose majestically from his place to embrace and kiss Bourguiba, saying softly: "This is a happy day. Joy has replaced suffering." Tears in his eyes, Bourguiba echoed: "A blessed...
Catacomb Christians. The Ninety and Nine takes its title from the book of Luke: "Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance." In due course the sinner appears, but the book's hero is on the scene from Page One, a Roman Catholic priest, about to travel the age-old road to martyrdom. Jesuit Father Janos is a good priest and a soldier of Christ in his heart, but he has had to fight few battles for the Christian faith in Roman Catholic Hungary. Then...
...much bored as boring -a dry and impecunious cubist. He made a living from newspaper cartoons, architectural renderings and engravings of paintings by his more famous friends. Meanwhile, decade by decade, his art mellowed, the cubist dregs dissolved, and the professorial dryness came to be replaced by a joy in life. At 70, he began to receive the homage of painters young enough to be his grandchildren. Now, at 79, he is among the prides of Paris...
...Return of Joy. His 90 poems, collected in a single volume in 1953, have gone through a spectacular seven printings. Records of his booming readings have become bestsellers (TIME, May 2). Now more scraps of Thomas' vivid prose have been put together and issued in a single volume called Adventures in the Skin Trade and Other Stories, and his letters are finding their way into print. Dylan Thomas is more alive today than any living poet now writing verse...
...reasons are not hard to find. Thomas returned to poetry what people used to expect of it: joy. His work was sometimes tortured and anguished. It could be obscure-not obscure in a deliberate, cultish manner, but in the sense that an excess of color can produce darkness. But far the larger part of his verse is ebullient, drenched with sight and sound, rich in haunting new language fed from old and sparkling springs...