Word: joying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moves brought joy to landless peasants and urban workers but were resented by great landowners, who fear the loss of their power. Similarly, the conservative Moslem mullahs dislike the freedom of women and the decree that shrine lands are to be shared among the peasants. It is probably significant that the soldier who tried to kill the Shah last week came from southern Iran near the nation's religious capital of Qum, a hotbed of anti-Shah feeling...
...horror, destruction, and despair--malformed men, bloody animal faces, burning villages. Today Chagall paints images of fertility and renewal--fish, three-breasted women, and fruit. Flowers are everywhere. Chagall now lives in Southern France in a house surrounded by gardens; his use of flowers seems to tell of the joy and peace he finds in his days. Great round, powerful suns light the skies over the bowls of flowers and shine through the windows into the lovers' bedrooms. Again, Chagall has shown love of life by exalting objects which presently delight...
...tonight, but the Adams House Drama society has simplified the choice. You can't do much better than Adams' production of The Beggar's Opera. from the beggar's entrance to the full-cast choral finale it bounces with such bawdy, malevolent zest that every minute is a theatrical joy...
...joy because the actors and actresses are enjoying it themselves. They have dispensed with the heavy complexities of modern drama and have turned the clock back two and a half centuries, to time when human affairs began and ended with money and sex, when robbers and whores danced at their compatriots' hangings. But they let us know from the start that no one's really going to get hanged, that the raging and weeping histrionics are no more than over-acting (though done with skill and polish), that what we are seeing is only a beggar's tale...
Rose confesses that he will miss his sculpture, which has sat niched away in closets, cellars and theaters. "Outside of the fact that you can't cuddle up to art," says he, "I get from it very much the same sort of joy that I get out of friendship with a beautiful girl." Rose feels that he is performing a noble divorce. Says he, "In this clip-clap, ragtag life, this is the most heart-warming thing I have ever done...