Word: joying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kind of gentleman's agreement, valid for many Broadway shows, that brains as well as cigarettes must be extinguished in the outer lobby, but once in a while this agreement is violated. Players and audience offer one another mutual respect, and there is an explosion of literate joy. Beyond the Fringe is precisely that...
...orchestra. At times the rhythms become so frenetic that the small figures look as if they might shake themselves apart. Yet the surface humor quickly peels away to reveal more serious intentions underneath. Underwood's sculptures are expressions of ideas, some of which he transforms into dances of joy and some into gestures of despair...
Wallace Stevens: "In an age when almost everybody sold man and the world short, he never did, but acted as if joy were 'a word of our own,' as if nothing excellent were alien...
Early this morning the President rose and went to cast his ballot at the Joy St. Police Station. He then flew back to Washington...
...have written an excellent honors essay after his third year, went that summer instead to a Harvard project in Africa; he had worked on a ranch in the previous summer and, whether or not through the cumulative force of these bright months, had as a senior an case and joy, also a physical strength and impressiveness, that he lacked to the same degree before. This is not to say that he might not have won a Rhodes Scholarship a year earlier, but it seems unlikely...