Word: joy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roman Catholic Church, but he was not a churchgoer, and his book would be out of place in any cathedral. The Prophet, Almustafa, about to sail away from Orphalese, where he has sojourned for twelve years, submits to questions from the villagers. They ask him about Love, Joy, Sorrow, Freedom, Pain, Giving, Work and other human affairs. He answers in mystical terms that seem to carry great meaning: "Work is love made visible." "Your joy is your sorrow unmasked." "Beauty is Eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror...
...TIME'S conclusions were based not only on information from Government officials, but also on extensive interviews with independent scholars, including Howard University's eminent Bernard Fall, author of The Two VietNams and Street Without Joy, and one of the few Westerners who in recent years have interviewed Ho face-to-face...
...Price of Zap"-June 25) suggests a possible rebuttal that might be called "The High Price of Pap." Henry Miller is one of the few people in our society who spend their lives trying to salvage living souls from the whirring junkheap of robothood. His books glitter with the joy of life, and they are capable of leading any halfway open-minded citizen to a point where he can deal with evil...
...legend, Catherine was executed and borne heavenward by angels where her devotion was rewarded when, having refused many suitors, she was betrothed to the Infant Christ by the Virgin Mary. It should be a supremely happy occasion, but as Romanino portrays it, the scene is singularly lacking in heavenly joy. The skies are threatening, the nuns troubled, the Virgin sad, the Infant petulant. Miraculously wedding deep Venetian hues, Lombardian realism and Gothic expressionism, the painting seems a superb summation of that place and that moment when the brusque Angst-filled winds from the north began to cool the warmth...
...medieval vision of man's nature and man's role in the universe, in the dazzling immensity of moral possibility he presents, men diminished by seven centuries of sphacelating materialism may experience a sudden enlargment of life and some of the joy felt by the souls in Paradise who followed after Dante, crying: "Lo, here is one who shall increase our loves...