Word: joying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Zero Mostel seems almost to physically expand to fill the stage with yeasty joy, pain and mystery in this musical based on Sholem Aleichem's tales of a poor Jewish dairyman, his family and friends in 1905 Russia...
...make her "appallingly stupid" cluke the first faithful husband in Spanish history. Her scheme is to win his compassion by feigning illness and his awe by submitting to surgical cures without anesthesia or a whimper. Some 30 agonizing operations later, the duke commits suicide. Now the widow, whose "only joy is to make others stay out of their own lives," can begin to "enjoy" her two children. "You may do what you want, but not before my death, which is quite near, I feel." At the faintest threat of their self-realization, back to the operating table goes the duchess...
...Shankar is India's most famed traditional musician. In the past half-dozen years, through a series of recordings and globe-girdling tours, Shankar has proved to jazz fans that his improvisational flights have an exciting kinship to modern jazz. Joy, Eroticism. Part of the appeal is the extraordinary range of sounds that can be coaxed out of the awkward- looking sitar, from deep guttural sighs to piercing cries. Fashioned 700 years ago, the sitar has six or seven playing strings, 19 "sympathetic" resonating strings, so sensitive that they must be retuned while being played, and two bulbous gourds...
...Angela." Later, Brialy soliloquizes: "I don't know whether this is a comedy or a tragedy-but it is a masterpiece." It isn't, really. But for fans of offbeat films, it will seem a pungently detailed and disarmingly original effort by a man who makes his joy in his work contagious...
...there? Why thus, we cry, did he die? The Heavens are silent. What he was, he was: What he is fated to become Depends on us. Remembering his death, How we choose to live Will decide its meaning. When a just man dies, Lamentation and praise, Sorrow and joy...