Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gandhi's opposition that led her to declare a state of emergency and suspend many of India's democratic freedoms. After the Supreme Court's ruling, Mrs. Gandhi emerged from her New Delhi home to speak to a jubilant crowd of her supporters. "In joy and sorrow you have always been with me," she said, denouncing her opponents as "those who started the trouble." The Prime Minister gave no clue as to what she would do next. Unquestionably, she will push ahead on the ambitious social and economic reforms inaugurated during the emergency (TIME, Oct. 27). Some...
...prop, but I won't perform," insisted New York Senator Jacob Javits, 71, agreeing to pose for photographers with Daughter Joy, 27. Javits, who had come to Boston's Charles Playhouse to see his offspring sing and dance in the stage musical Diamond Studs, managed to keep his senatorial cool while Joy pranced about in bowler hat and tights. Despite Javits' solemnity in front of the cameras, Joy attributed her vocation to Papa's own love of fancy footwork. Said she: "He's a great ballroom dancer...
...white-haired, sunken-eyed professor wandered slowly around his Columbia University classroom leafing through a copy of James Joyce's Dubliners. "He lived at a little distance from his body," Lionel Trilling read aloud from the book. Then, as if discovering Joyce afresh, he fairly glowed with joy: "Marvelous phrase. Isn't that the essence of alienation?" Still wandering, he went on to observe that a character in the Dubliners kept a rotting apple in his desk, which reminded him that the only way Schiller could compose poetry was with an apple giving off fumes in his desk...
...There is properly no history," wrote Emerson, "only biography." To reconstruct the New Mexican frontier of the 1860s, Horgan concentrates on Lamy. In the novel, the bishop experienced a constant inner joy: "He always awoke a young man ... One could breathe that [air] only on the bright edges of the world, on the great grass plains or the sagebrush desert." Horgan testifies to Lamy's love of Western saddle life, but concedes a sadder truth: "If he had any capacity to express exalted feeling, he left no record...
Sweet Movie was shown two years ago at the Cannes Film Festival. Since then it has acquired a justifiably vile reputation. A sort of live-action animated cartoon, the movie is a paean to the joys of insanity. Should there be any mistaking this intent, Director Dusan Makavejev (who made another Reichian parable, WR-Mysteries of the Organism) includes a little ditty with the refrain, "It's a joy to be crazy/ Good to be sad.../ Good to practice deadly sin/ To be alive and to win." Irony, if intended, is imperceptible...