Word: joying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...captures our vague feeling of joy when we approach an animal and he doesn't "quicken his trot" to avoid us; the evanescent feeling of horror when a lover senses the "last traces of warmth.. fading in you"; the complex of emotions she feels when she observes simple scenes like a man walking two dogs on a rainy evening or a young woman wading into a river to draw water...
...Lauent Weisman is very effective. He portrays Minsky with a forceful calm that the play lacks. Richard Black plays his dinner guest, an advertising executive, with the deliberate superficiality the role requires. But it is not much of a role, and Black's jittery movements and exaggerated expressions of joy only add to the chaos of Sisson's play...
...carry a heavy secret. Whether involved in a child's game or in an ancient tragedy, the chunky figures appear lost in some timeless trance: no matter how much a part of a group they are, they are always solitary. The figures pray or weep, bend in joy or agony, play out roles in a cobbler's shop, or at the foot of the Cross. They all bear the same basic message: all men live out their lives alone...
Wildenstein's own credo has brought him a fortune, but it has also brought him unsurpassed joy. "If you want to learn and to love art," he told a visitor last week, "go and see the great masters. Go and see them as often as you can. When you can feel them, hear them, touch them with your mind, turn their colors over and over on your tongue-then you will begin to understand...
...them. Then there is the Chicago defense. Only 134 goals have been scored against the Hawks so far this season, best record of any team in the league. Defenseman Elmer Vasko, 27, is the biggest man in hockey at 6 ft. 3 in., 220 Ibs., and takes a special joy in grinding ambitious enemy forwards into the boards. As for Goalie Glenn Hall, 31, an N.H.L. All-Star for six of the past seven years, he is well on his way toward his first Vezina Trophy as the league's best goalkeeper, with a league-leading goals-against average...