Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is the peculiar end of the Viet Nam War. Nixon, with justification, thought it would come with some shouts of joy and relief, some ringing declarations of "Hail to the Chief." Not so. That strange struggle has so upset rationality that there was almost more carping during the signing of the cease-fire than before. It is unfair to Nixon...
...streets of Saigon were filled with joy and vengeance on Nov. 1, 1963-the day that South Vietnamese generals stormed Ngo Dinh Diem's presidential palace and sent him to his grave. First came the long night of siege and the thunder of tanks in battle at the palace walls. Then came the final rush through the grounds by Diem's once faithful soldiers. As the battle subsided, I caught the first glimpse of a white flag waving tentatively from a first-floor palace window. In a minute or so the air was filled with silence-and with...
...Joy of Sex, Comfort (4) 7-All Creatures Great and Small...
Most of the cast can't match him, and only intermittently--in the fatuous joy of Norman Ornellas as the doomed and "sweating lord" of Hastings, for example--does the play rise to its full height and mock the dead bones that lie scatt'red by. Penelope Allen and Pacino offer another such moment in the scene where he woos her before her murdered husband's bier; except for Clarence's dream. Richard III's poetry doesn't sing of its own accord like the later plays', but Allen's almost lilting threnody...
...indeed to be with it. Mr. North feels that he works just as hard as the water carrier does, and the water carrier feels that he works just as hard as The Old Man (voice not hushed); both and all to the same end: to keep their pride and joy worthy of being called The Greatest Show on Earth. And so it is with the Breakfast Daily. Just to have one's name on the list of editors is a fraud and a delusion. A long column of neatly printed names means nothing if all our members are only dead...