Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PEOPLES OF KENYA by Joy Adamson. 400 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
This book is by the author of Born Free, Living Free and Forever Free, but it is quite different. Before writing those animal stories, Joy Adamson had taught herself to paint and then, for more than six years, lived among the many tribes of Kenya. In hundreds of her paintings and photographs, she presents the people and their customs. Many of the ceremonies-for example, circumcision rites-have never before been observed by a white witness, and anthropologists as well as the nonspecialist reader will find much that is unusual. Among other things, the Adamson enterprise is sure to lead...
...Joy Anderson, illustrated by Jay Yang (Harcourt, Brace & World; $2.75). Two Formosan boys prepare for the annual pai-pai festival, at which the biggest pig in the village wins prize money for its owner before being eaten at the banquet...
...Charlie Brown. Who else has won so much respect and has brought more peace of mind and joy to people? JACKIE CARUSO Valley Stream...
...been enlarged by the substance of mores. The possibility is hinted at in the pointed performances of Nelson and Bel Geddes. As their faces fall apart with their world, the desolating emptiness that is left comes not from a shortage of cash but from a dearth of purpose and joy...