Word: joying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went to a movie, last night, and cried and cried-with joy. A big red-haired man with such a fine voice came out and sang a song about "Lucky Lindy . . Plucky Lindy . . ." all about "Lucky" Lindbergh, of course. Well, my son used to be called "Lindy," too, at High School, and it all just brought tears of pride to my eyes. For my son has been "Lucky" and "Plucky," too, and now has a fine position. Please print this letter, because there must be many mothers among your thousands of readers whose husbands have such names that their sons...
...appears to be a distinct impression that Mr. de Mille has generally improved the original. He has added a great many details to enhance the glory of his film. He has given it what one would expect from him--lavishness. The result is a thing of beauty and a joy forever, according to the blushing advertisements...
...devote," he wrote, "vast departments of government and great agencies of commerce and industry, science and invention, to decreasing the hours of work, but we devote comparatively little to improving the hours of recreation. We associate joy with leisure. We have great machinery to produce joy, some of it destructive, some of it synthetic, some of it mass-produced. We go to chain theatres and movies; we watch somebody else knock a ball over the fence or kick it over the goal bar. I do that and I believe in it. I do, however, insist that no other organized joy...
...appeal for an acquaintance with his works will corroborate the statement that Beethoven is first, an emotional composer, second, an artist of great dramatic power; and third, a man of fascinating humor, whose works have their being to intensify those never changing qualities in man--his basic emotions, love, joy, sorrow, his craving for the dramatic, for something to happen, and his instinct for what is humorous--for the incongruities and variety in the spectacle of life...
...saving grace is his gift of humor, just as important in art as in daily life. Beethoven never tears a passion to tatters, never protests too much, can be serious and truly impressive without becoming solemn or pontificial. Before Beethoven, music had been practically limited to the expression of joy and sorrow in a broad sense of these terms. With his inborn whimsicality and with his philosophy, akin to that of Shakspere, that nothing is more deadly than to take ourselves too seriously, Beethoven developed in music the spirit of fantastic humor...