Word: joying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of the city that Composer Richard Rodgers, 62, knows well. He grew up there when it was still a middle-class neighborhood, went sledding in the park, near it met Lyricist Larry Hart. Now, doing his bit to turn Manhattan once again into an isle of joy, he plans to build and give to the city a 2,000-seat amphitheater for musicals, dancing, skating and concerts. It will be built in Mount Morris Park, explains Rodgers, because "I got a lot out of that park, and I want to put something back into...
...literary device is repetition. The awkwardness and naivete with which it is employed becomes embarrassing quite early in the evening. One word is sequentially used as thre different parts of speech in a striving for poetic utterance that displays the banality of the mind which wrote it: "We were joyful. We followed Him joyfully in order to live in joy...
...yellows blare with neon. And the stray words that seem squiggled from a toothpaste tube onto his paintings are like the hip, harsh expletives that slum kids spew into the summer air. Davis had violence without anger, gaiety without abandon, and his paintings swing and jump with such durable joy that it is as if he had dipped his brush in some eternal fountain of youth...
...high jinks, though, Fiedler liberally laces his joy juice with headier stuff from Handel, Frescobaldi, Poulenc and Stravinsky. He delights in proclaiming, "I've been accused of making more friends for music than any other conductor. I have no use for those snobs who look down their noses at everything but the most highbrow music. I'm a serious musician, but I don't want to be classified. I'd be bored doing only symphony music...
...Subject Was Roses but the theme is thorns, the barbed bloodletting that drains away the lives of people who live within the intimacy of the family without being intimate. Ostensibly, the moment is an occasion of joy. Timmy Cleary (Martin Sheen), son of John (Jack Albertson) and Nettie Cleary (Irene Dailey), has come home safe from World War II. Curt with one another, the parents both love the son and engage in a competition for his affections. But the boy has come back with a stubborn thirst to be his own man. In petty and profounder ways, things go wrong...