Word: joying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...novel's only important lapse is its denouement-the fight with the kike man, which is written as if Friedman were trying to compose an allegory. When the man clobbers him on the ear, Stern "thrills with joy at still being alive," then feels "a warm shudder of sympathy for the man, who had been unable to knock him unconscious with the blow." He walks bloodily home, purged at first, then puzzled to find that the old fear of his enemy down the road is beginning all over again...
Ordeals of birth, and from corruption, joy...
...animals and people in muted colors of luminous clarity. He had a sense of structure that both Seurat and Cezanne admired, but he was more interested in the surface of nature than in its interior turbulence. His quiet scenes were sometimes a bit melancholy, sometimes vibrant with a profound joy...
Winds of Legend. Anxiety in Americans, says Eliot, stems from their "basically sound awareness that pleasure is not joy." Money can buy pleasure but joy costs more, and can be gained only through "creative work and love." In his personal search for these elusive commodities, Eliot quit his job after 15 years as Art editor at TIME, and fled the U.S. for the Mediterranean littoral...
Brittle good intentions glare out from the bright pages of this year's children's books, but most are sad failures, lacking equally in anything resembling either joy or pain. Publishers are like elderly relatives who come to visit-they coo, they tweak too many cheeks. Worse than relatives, they also play up to parents by dropping names, and they charge high prices to do it: this year's list includes several books for very small children that cost upwards of $3, putting an unnaturally high price on a child's natural impulse for destruction...