Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joy, Tragedy, Refrain...
Walt Disney-he still brings joy to young and old via Disneyland...
...Goldwyn decided to make a big cinemusical out of Porgy and Bess, the Negro folk opera (music by George Gershwin), the one trouble he did not foresee was a shortage of candidates for the leading roles. Since its first performance in 1935. the tuneful story of sorrow and joy along Catfish Row has been one of the theater's few durable meal tickets for Negro entertainers. It has enjoyed successful revivals on Broadway, innumerable road companies and a State Department-blessed international tour that included Russia and the satellites...
...manuscripts, not quite art for art's sake or literature for literature's sake, seem to epitomize the joy of collecting. A Gutenberg Bible, the original manuscripts of Keats' Endymion, Balzac's Eugenie Grandet, Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and Pope's Essay on Man, among other works, have traveled about the country with the drawings and illuminations in this magnificent and unconventional exhibition which circulate, to a wider audience, J.P. Morgan's gift to the public...
...best scenes in the film center around Caligula's Latin class, and show the teacher drumming passive paraphrastics and ablative absolutes into his cowering pupils with a vengeance which would have brought joy to his namesake...