Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kohler). In no time the lordly abstainers are meditating only on their ladies' beauty and studying how to sneak love letters to them. Irony outraces irony, and the jollity is compounded by a covey of curates, schoolmasters and clowns. The R.S.C. invests the evening with lyricism, ardor and joy. In a superbly articulated performance (no surprise from one of the finest actors alive), Ian Richardson as Berowne sums up Shakespeare's conviction that all Utopian dreams run afoul of human needs, desires and nature, and that life is the tutor of words, not words the master of life...
...devices. Boston Piano Player Randy Klein, who backs up Singer Graham, was moved to record a more conventional greeting after his ragtime ditty began drawing 300 calls per day. Graham is also deluged with calls. "People call from New York just to listen," he says. "It genuinely gives them joy." Author Robert Rimmer's (Thursday, My Love) phone rang almost continuously when word got around that his machine read back a passage from his book...
...disappears, from tying one action into another and making it all one whole, has been felt by both sexes. It is a great tragedy that Tess Slesinger, with her deep understanding of all that it means to be a woman, was unwilling to have a female character proclaim this joy as eloquently as the rest of her women describe their sorrows...
...Chaplinesque humor with a mime's mastery of the mysterious language of silence. A floppy puppet holding his heart and crying real tears, Panov shrugged his shoulders and, with a spineless collapse, fell to the floor in a human puddle. In that single movement he captured all the joy and anguish of the universal clown...
That's why Roazen's approach is more than good gossip. There is an irreverent joy that comes with photographs of Freud's couch and anecdotes about his Oedipus complex that seems more appropriate at cocktail partles than in serious works in the history of science. But scientists rule with their theories, and Roazen's account of the bizarre twists in the development of psychoanalysis that hinged on human quirks shows that science is not always a religious drive toward truth. It has a politics and justice...