Word: joying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Street Without Joy. The U.S. jet flights from Danang marked a break with earlier U.S. practice, in which American flyers and gunners served merely as "advisers" to the South Vietnamese military. For the first time, Americans were flying and fighting on their own, and, as one U.S. navigator-bombardier said, "now we've shown them what...
...order, for the Viet Cong last week threatened to cut South Viet Nam in half (see map). Operating in battalion-strength units, the Communists hacked away at two important highways: Route 1, the embattled north-south road that the French called La Rue sans Joie (Street Without Joy), and Route 19, which links Pleiku in the central plateau with the seaport staging base of Quinhon. Controlling all of Route 19 from Pleiku to within 20 miles of Quinhon, the Viet Cong pinned down a company of South Vietnamese Rangers and U.S. Special Forces advisers at Mangyang Pass. The Rangers were...
...question is important; during the '40s Shaw wrote a large body of short stories good enough to be mentioned with those of Fitzgerald and Hemingway. They were brief, stinging fragments, told in a voice wholly Shaw's own. They were not, most of them, about joy, but they seemed to have been written with joy; this was writing done wonderfully well for no more complicated reason than that the author took pleasure in doing...
Then, in a literary disappearance as abrupt and unexplained as Ambrose Bierce's, Shaw vanished. He was replaced by someone else named Irwin Shaw, who produced the swollen, solemn war novel The Young Lions. The craftsman's joy in a job done as well as a man could do it was missing; the book's two elaborate plots alternated like the footfalls of a tired man clumping upstairs...
...with glittering menace. As the ne'er-do-well whose passions surge at the drop of a bank note, Delon is a rake smoothly handled by Temptress Albright and coltish Actress Fonda, who comes through as a sort of cheerleader turned femme fatale. Together, they make Joy House as sportive as a carnival crazy house, brimful of absurd surprises...