Word: joying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this would be a rather lugubrious picture, a poser in justifying the ways of God to man, if it were not for the joy and gladness which it must bring to all the good people of Boston and Cambridge. Tradesmen of the Square breathe a sigh of relief and replace the Kollege Kut Klothes in their window with unmatched suits and complements of a more sober hue. The period of depression is over. The college boys are back, and better to have long-running bills than no business...
...eyes with joy alight...
...Concerto with the New York Symphony and Yehudi said "Why not? I only want to have some fun playing with the orchestra." He had his fun and critics, niggardly always with their praise for youthful virtuosos, threw restraint to the winds, reveled in such simple qualities as innocence and joy, prayed these might not be tarnished. There followed an offer for seven concerts at $5,000 apiece, another from a San Francisco group for ten at $3,000 each but the Menuhins refused them both, boarded the train instead for San Francisco, permitted a birthday concert there and then announced...
...false fatality in the coincidence that so often generates his plots. But these faults are rooted in deeper virtues: an intense sincerity, unconcerned with merely literary effects, a profound, pitying pessimism, a relentless humanism that condemns the disorderly dieties who make men's lives sterile and without joy. There is also the scope, the inclusiveness that permits him to deal with large effects, to call, in the sweeping vigorous lines of The Dynasts, for Napoleon's army to appear upon the stage...
...point out that behind such preposterous euphemism as "He spoke as to cheek and chin of the joy of the mutational steel" when he might have said "He was clean shaven," Henry James concealed only a frustrated and mediocre intellect may be heresy to this day in the purlieus of Beacon Hill, but the fact remains and the judicious know...