Word: joying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always thought Diogenes ran a chain of hamburger stands. Imagine my joy and relief when he was properly identified...
Apart from the overtones of demi-semi-Hemingway in this creed, the play casts doubt on the joy of life that it rather self-consciously preaches ("use all five senses every day"). To treat life as a branch of esthetics is to observe one's responses to it, rather than engage spontaneously in it, to play-act rather than act, or play. When Wertenbaker and his wife Lael (Olivia de Havilland) make love, he asks for a morning-after review. "Miraculous, as always," she replies, making two people who believe...
...government loans, tax rebates, priority on machinery and fertilizer. The lesson-that free farming works while collectivized agriculture does not-obviously interests Moscow. Khrushchev, while still insisting on collectives, has raised financial incentive for increased output. Eying the Polish reward system, Moscow not long ago confessed: "We share your joy in the achievements of your agriculture. Your policy is producing good results...
...There's indiscriminate breeding right away. Pretty soon you can buy one at Macy's." But Ch. Elfinbrook Simon is not one to put on the dog. When Simon was singled out as the year's best. Owner Barbara Worcester burst into tears of joy and relief. As for Simon, he padded over to the "Best in Show" sign and, with an air of aplomb that brought cheers from 10,000 spectators, found relief of a different sort...
This romantic novel preserves, as if in amber, all the forgotten joys of Victorian fiction. Here again are such stately nouns as provender and ablutions, adverbs like anew and perchance, adjectives like ruinated or commonsensical, once invaluable conjunctives like albeit. There are long majestic strings of rhetorical questions-"But why should sorrow be always creeping in upon joy? Why should it pierce him and find him out in this dear, beautiful place into which he had been wafted so mysteriously?" The plot-a 19th century version of the ancient tale of Tristan and Isolde-is every bit as lurid...