Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your reporting on the McCarthy-Army hearings [May 3] was superb. As a Democrat, I should rejoice at this sordid spectacle of Republicans belaboring Republicans. But as a loyal American, I cannot in my heart find any joy in a fracas which is seriously injuring the prestige of the United States, and keeping the minds of the people and legislators from far more vital affairs...
Collectively titled Joy of Living, Kasiulis' 27 canvases are all nostalgic, tender scenes with an old-fashioned sentiment about them reminiscent of the designs in petit-point footstool covers. Harmony shows two blonde maidens sitting together on a fringed sofa, both playing the same guitar. Prelude is an idyllic rural scene, with meadows, trees and a clear blue pond; a graceful boy and girl are about to eat a picnic lunch. In The Portrait, Kasiulis mildly lampoons his own profession he shows a grave, bearded artist painting a mirror-like portrait of a model gaily dressed...
...lithographs quickly sold out, and in the last six months, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art has bought three of his paintings. The pictures in last week's show were also selling well, at around $200 each, and the critics enthusiastically hailed Kasiulis as an oasis of joy in a desert of gloom and pessimism...
...much like any other teen-ager dressed up for a masquerade. The common people seem better than their betters. As they stir their hot-buttered tea or plow the skyey pastures with their dolorous yaks, or swarm to Lhasa for their pageants, their faces are warm with the comfortable joy of creatures at home in their world...
...that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine." But Price took away a record of one of the most probing minds of the century in spontaneous action, kicking ideas around for the joy of seeing them bounce...