Word: joy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam, the war is not all interracial amity: vicious racist graffiti from both sides mar the walls of latrines in Saigon; whites and Negroes slug it out on occasion along the nighttown streets of Tu Do and in "Soulsville," the Negro's self-imposed ghetto of joy along Saigon's waterfront. Sometimes they shoot it out. Like their people back home, many Negro G.I.s are skeptical of the aims of the war. Nonetheless, of scores of Negro servicemen interviewed by TIME in Viet Nam, all but a few volunteered the information that they were there to serve...
Renoir's Jeckyll and Hyde, The Testament of Doctor Cordelier (1960) is also about a progression toward joy through the liberation inherent in total self-expression. But unlike the heroes in most Renoir films, Dr.Cordelier(Jean-Louis Barrault) goes about it incorrectly and fails dismally. Cordelier, inhibited and afraid, his sexual neuroses damaging his medical career, effects the classic Stevensonian chemical transformation and becomes hideous Monsieur Opale, a sadistic savage who cannot resist kicking the crutches out from under a cripple, or wrenching the baby from any passing mother. Predictably, Opale's appearances become progressively vicious during the first...
...tormented life some meaning: he learns that his Jeckyll-Hyde transformations have not altered his soul, as they had his appearance and personality. When Opale takes the last deadly dose of the antidote that returns him to his former state, he knows that though he found misery, not joy, in his attempt, his soul had not been submerged in depravity, and will remain immortal when stripped of the polluted body...
...answer we will not attempt here an amateur joy ride through the financial maze of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' budget nor will we preach a sermon over Harvard's fabled untouched riches. Undoubtedly, though surpluses may turn up in some years and deficits in others, the budget of the Faculty will, when completed, generally show in any year little room for any major new expenditures. What we wish to emphasize instead is the obvious: That all budgets are founded upon a judgement of relative priorities, and that our petition essentially asks Harvard to reconsider her present priorities...
...with Jewish tradition. His prose is majestically-at times annoyingly-Talmudic and is not easily translated from the Hebrew. Nor is his spirit, which is strongly flavored with Hasidism, an 18th century Jewish movement with strong emotional appeal to an oppressed and homeless people. Hasidism urged Jews to find joy in prayer and in their lot-an antidote to the despairs of exile. The existence of the State of Israel has helped dissipate the Hasidic appeal. But Agnon's spirit, his heart and his books still cherish the time when the Jew's chief sustenance was a dream...