Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite sure why. The play concerns two old people, confined to a nursing home, who get acquainted over the card game that fills the too-many empty spaces in their lives. A somber theme, but the performances of Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy under Mike Nichols' direction are a joy. At the Wilbur...
Boston deserves better, and could, of course, still get it. The city is an old-fashioned baseball town, of the ilk of St. Louis, of old Brooklyn. The love affair is fostered by eccentric Fenway Park. The seats so embrace the field that the fans literally feel the joy and agony of each play. The fans come in all shapes and classes. They talk about the same plays on assembly lines, in shipyards, at academic meetings, during black-tie dinners on Beacon Hill, and at the stately clubs. Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti wears a Sox cap. Humberto Cardinal Medeiros...
Although there was no joy in Brookline on Wednesday morning, in Beverly Farms, the hometown of Francis W. Hatch '46, there was dancing on the bridle paths. Little more than a week before the election, a local newspaper devoted its Sunday front page to a story asking if perhaps this was the end of the line for Hatch. Denied the Republican state convention's endorsement by political neophyte Edward F. King, Hatch swallowed his anger and resentment and proceeded to run a strong campaign against the Dukakis administration, although he was given little chance of besting Dukakis in November...
...Ackermanndoesn't have the money to mount an effective liberal challenge to Dukakis. And former MassPort Director Ed King would not only slash the incomes of poor people, he'd also sweep environmental, consumer and women's issues under the carpet. Dukakis will win again, but there is no joy in Mudville...
...preface to Silences, Tillie Olsen takes a sentence from Andre' Gide as her epigram: "I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance." It is in her discussion of the subtler, unspoken, often unconscious ways society has of grinding human beings down that she comes closest to inspiring hope in the reader. By asking the writer "questions" is this true? Is this all?" Olsen overturns values that too many repressed people unconsciously accept. Here she lists the insights stored up during her period of silence. Each is a revelation in miniature, liberating the reader from widely--held misconceptions, many...