Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...single towering talent, succeeds as a funnyman mostly because his humor seems to well up from a sizable heart. Or, as Danny Thomas puts it, citing his favorite philosopher, Lebanese Mystic Kahlil (The Prophet) Gibran: "Comedy and tragedy aren't very far apart. Like Gibran says, 'Your joy is your sorrow unmasked...
...explore some of its consequences. The first and most serious of these is that the Memorial Church now becomes a symbol of disunity in the Harvard community. To those of us who are not Christians, it is a place that is not available for sanctification either of joy or of grief. There has been exclusion. I cannot avoid the feeling that matters of sectarian religious doctrine have been put ahead of concern for the Harvard community, a community so fine and just in its temper and standards that many feel it to be one of the great achievements of American...
Author Reid's hero is Nebu, a simple Kikuyu who was once a houseboy for an English planter. Now he is a Mau Mau whose deepest joy comes when a white is made "beautiful," i.e., seen in the final torments of death. The plot is so firmly tied to coincidence as to make it seem slightly ridiculous. After a raid, Nebu drops off from his Mau Mau gang to fol low white tracks through the bush. When he catches up to the white man, he finds his old boss, and after he has killed him, he discovers the white...
...Gone and gotten myself gravid," announces Isabel one day. For Owen the joy turns to horror as his wife becomes obsessed with the notion that her pregnancy has been forced upon her by the black magic of the land's fierce sensuality. She flees to a sorcerer and dies in abortion. For a year, Owen's "chaste maple syrup soul" is frozen. Then he attends a frenzied voodoo initiation, slips into an illicit affair, takes to drink, and the tropics claim another victim...
Bitter Lemons is a poignant account of the deepening tragedy of Anglo-Cypriot relations. But it is also much more-a superlative piece of travel writing by an Anglo-Irishman who has long and lovingly rooted himself in the Mediterranean scene. Author Durrell, 46, taps the juice and joy of his Cypriot friends, Greek and Turkish, and his poetic style transforms the Cypriot landscape into a "sun-bruised" demi-paradise...