Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Elf Lark." Pop urges the hung-over tax man to put in for sick leave ("the National Elf Lark"), and before long Charlie beds down with Mariette in a field of buttercups. But it is the strawberry-sweet juice and joy of life with Pop and Ma Larkin that truly seduces Charlie. One day it is Pop piloting a real, if secondhand, Rolls-Royce into the yard and grandly announcing, "Ourn." Other times, it is Ma wolfing fish and chips and baying "Turn up the contrast!" toward the ever-playing...
...robust, open humor and friendliness, the sunny exuberance that blew through the whole performance. The full-bodied Russian girls were ingenuously sensuous without being sensual. The men-possibly the most masculine male dancers ever to kick a leg in Manhattan-performed their muscle-twisting feats witha pure animal joy of movement rarely seen on the stage. Wrote Critic Harold Clurman: "The qualities these dancers possess are those we [Americans] like to claim as our own when we feel ourselves to be at our best...
...Palms of Joy. An overwhelming majority of Colombians, both Liberal and Conservative, greeted Lleras Camargo's decision with a heartfelt sigh of relief. When he finished his acceptance speech, they tumbled into the streets with the same joy they showed when Rojas toppled. Waving handkerchiefs, flags and pictures of Lleras, they wove in and out among horn-honking cars and buses.They stripped palm trees bare, carried the heavy fronds aloft in the ancient symbol of rejoicing. Students turned their coats inside out, joined hands and snake-danced to the chants of "Lleras! Lleras! Lleras...
...whether you agree with Russell or not, it is a constant joy to be sure you know what he means by what he is saying. Even in reading Russell's most complex and difficult treatises, one never suspects him of trying to avoid an issue by throwing up a meaningless verbal smokescreen that will hide the obvious banality or falsehood of his views on certain points. This is the result of that slow, painful climb toward greater intellectual clarity which has been the life-work of Russell and his colleagues, Moore and Wittgenstein, and which some contemporary writing is doing...
...such an approach, it might be suggested that the Orchestra is not committed to any particular number of concerts a year, and both players and audiences might find it more rewarding to have fewer concerts, but those few better prepared. It is frustrating to the musicians, and no joy to the listeners, to allow a great symphony such as the Schubert 7th to receive a prosaic reading, when two weeks' more rehearsal would have permitted a more satisfying performance...