Word: joying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three pieces at the end are about the "cultural and intellectual community" of the Atlantic countries. Of these, David Cole's on Odets, Genet and Osborne is alone a joy to read for its reflections on how these playwrights manhandle their audiences. George Collier has written an extremely intelligent and learned article on the anthropological methods of France, England, and America which after three readings still leaves me, if instructed, cold; it may bring something to others. Drew de Shong has a weird little rapid-fire glance at three avant-garde sculptors, a lollipop he lets us lick just once...
While the reforms were most loudly welcomed by rod-spared schoolchildren, they also stirred joy in English pubs, where a "single" Scotch or gin is usually one-sixth of a gill-barely enough, Britons grumble, to wet the glass. Henceforth, pubs will be allowed to dispense one-sixth, one-fifth or one-fourth of a gill.* But will be forced to display a sign saying clearly which measure they use. The greatest spur to thoroughgoing reform will undoubtedly be British membership in the European Common Market. In time, Englishmen may even order their mild-and-bitter by the liter...
...leader in the Ivy League, still puts on its Winter Carnival, the nation's coldest and wildest college weekend. But doused in Hopkins Center culture and prodded to more "self-education" than ever, Dartmouth men are fast finding that winter in Hanover can be the intellectual joy of a lifetime...
Beyond the Fringe is an explosion of literate joy. Its four high-IQ British imps skewer clichés and milk sacred cows for irreverent merriment. The chief scholar-clown, Dr. Jonathan Miller, is a droll, gravity-defying pixy for whom a new vocabulary of humor will have to be invented...
...then that Joy her contract doth renege...