Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Promise of Joy, Drury...
...must take exception to the lie in your review of my novel The Promise of Joy [April 14], in which you state that "Drury describes the Chinese variously as 'yellow hordes,' 'pagan hordes' and 'mongrel hordes...
Political Binge. No matter: from the poor, heavily Communist Alentejo region in the south to the staunchly Roman Catholic north, Portugal went on a political binge, seeming to revel in the pure joy of participating in any kind of balloting. Although the number of political parties had been pared down from more than 50 to twelve (some parties have been banned by the M.F.A.), one Lisbon schoolboy aptly described the confusion of it all. "My father belongs to the Revolutionary Brigades, my mother is a Socialist, my brother is a Maoist," he said. "In a way, I'm glad...
...Promise of Joy, Drury...
...early 40's, he would walk around the block every day watching the crowds go in, but he could never bring himself to go in and see the show. He describes "dancing in the streets of the Village" the day Wall Street crashed. "I used to jump for joy when I read of some of those stock brokers jumping out of windows...