Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Value of Time. Wormwood, a youngster full of a youngster's appetites, is beside himself with joy as the war intensifies. His uncle, snarling at "your readiness to forget the main point in your immediate enjoyment of human suffering," warns him: "I sometimes wonder if you young fiends ... are not in some danger of becoming infected by the sentiments and values of the humans among whom you work. They, of course, do tend to regard death as the prime evil and survival as the greatest good. But that is because we have taught them...
...weakness of his characters, their inability to face and master the problems engendered by circumstance; but, at the same time, he holds out for those millions who know not why they suffer, the hope for a better world to come and the thought that "our sufferings will pass into joy for those who will live after...
...Saroyan touch leaves nothing ordinary; the film is electric with the joy of life. It gets this quality partly from the acting of Mickey Rooney, who, despite some persistent Andy Hardy mannerisms, is for once something besides a showoff. But the real star of The Human Comedy is five-year-old Jack Jenkins. When he startles a bearded scholar in the town library by suddenly poking his freckled, wistful face before the man's eyes, the film sings. Best scene is the one in which he learns the meaning of "I'm afraid." A human advertising robot...
...difficult indeed to know what the liberals are striving for. Our very enemies, Germany and Italy, have that economic equality the liberals relish, while Russia, a joy to radical economists, is a tyranny. Why cannot the radicals demand abolition of all dictatorships, fascist and communistic? Leftists now want to leave the Russian system alone after the war. This is a compromise with idealism and shows a weak inconsistency in the radical camp. Can they expect a lasting peace with any dictatorship still rampant...
Soap operas, the joy and pain of millions of U.S. radio listeners, have never sudsed up the English air. But for months now, though English ears cannot hear the program (it is short-waved away for all the fest of the world to hear), the august, government-controlled British Broadcasting Corp. has had a soap opera. Its title: Front-Line Family...