Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CHARLES R. JOY...
...they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word...
Between Heaven & Earth. Love and dread were to become the only consistently recognizable elements in Chagall's work. His candles stood for weddings-or funerals. His roosters crowed for joy-or looked monstrously fierce. But the most confusing thing about Chagall was that all of his few symbols hung somewhere between Heaven and Earth. Cows jumped over housetops, and fiddlers played in the sky. Like Einstein, Chagall went beyond Newtonian law. As in some Hasidic dances, his whirling, painted figures achieved an ecstasy of mystic levitation-but they never came down...
Giannini allowed none of this to interfere with his joy in the simple life. Mornings he lay all but naked atop a bathhouse, his sun-blackened, 6 ft. 1½in., 215-lb. bulk streaming inelegant rivulets of sweat. He swam, indulged himself in a rubdown, sat up with a towel around his ample middle to address those around him in .a hoarse, booming voice...
...warm passion for facts of nature, even less of his intellectual Puritanism. Born in 1895, at Manosque, Basses-Alpes, of French-Italian stock, Giono is essentially a nature-loving mystic. He is a teller of wry, earthy stories of the peasants in whom he professes to see the joy of the good life embodied. He has written about these people, sometimes bafflingly but always with zest and imagination, in The Song of the World, Harvest, and Joy of Man's Desiring...