Word: joy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more deplorable casualties of current writing is the happy childhood. Still, there must be some adults who were happy kids, and occasionally a writer is bold enough to stand and be counted. English Poet Laurie Lee made no bones about the joy of his poverty-stricken youth in The Edge of Day (TIME, March 28). Now Marcel Pagnol, a French Academician and man of film and theater (Fanny, The Baker's Wife), writes with uninhibited pleasure of a Provence boyhood. By his account, it was so lacking in bitterness that, to Freudian critics, it will seem downright square...
Reduced Role. Midwifery may be the world's second oldest ' profession, once ranked among its most respected. Plato made no distinction between mother and midwife, used the same word (maia) for both. An old Norwegian proverb advised: "The greatest joy is to become a mother; the second greatest is to be a midwife." But since 1648, when male doctors-at Paris' Hôtel-Dieu-were first permitted to attend a mother during a normal delivery, the role of the midwife throughout much of the world has been reduced to that of a mere birth attendant, patronized...
...husband is himself at odds with his background yet determined to force his wife to melt into it. The members of the clan jolly her with well-meant but offensive pleasantries ("Beware, madame! You're too slim; we like them well covered"); one old aunt shows her joy at their visit to her house by filling her mouth with orange water and squirting them with it. Marie resents the dirty restaurants, and he gets even by suggesting a local delicacy, grilled sheep's testicles. Before long, he manages to devise a hurt to meet each of her objections...
...early years, Schiele writes, "I lived in joy, in a joy alternating between serenity and wistfulness. Then came the empty hours." World War I and many family problems placed further restrictions on his liberty and his painting came more and more to reflect the pathos within...
...World of Apu (Edward Harrison) completes, in alternations of suffering and joy, one of the most vital and abundant movies ever made. Based on a bestselling Bengali novel by Bibhuti Bannerji, the picture was written, produced and directed as three separate pictures by a 39-year-old Calcutta film buff named Satyajit Ray (pronounced Sawt-yaw-jit Rye). Each of the three lasts about an hour and 45 minutes and stands as a separate and complete cinema experience in its own right. But the moviemaker intended his trilogy ultimately to be seen and judged as a single immense discursive epic...