Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American woman is headed straight for a mental hospital, it's pretty safe to conclude she took her first step in college." He wants to see more "education-for-mother-hood." This usually consists of "a series of housekeeping hints and a constant reiteration of the joyous fact that women can have babies-a proposition that most females in our culture catch on to before they are out of the sandbox...
...Keats's charm and talent captivated the livelier literary people of his day. The letters written in his early 20s reflect the hope of his friends for his talent and the joyous confidence with which he shared their hope. "What a thing," he exclaims, "to be in the Mouth of Fame." And in another letter he bursts out: "I feel assured I should write from the mere yearning and fondness I have for the Beautiful even if my night's labours should be burnt every morning...
...Their conclusions: "We would be willing to live on almost any Polynesian island. We'd think ourselves lucky to be able to live on Tahiti or Rarotonga. We could enjoy a year or two on even the loneliest atolls. The inconveniences would be offset by the joyous life-patterns of the people who would share them with...
...eyed little (5 ft.) man with the high, fringed dome and the long, lugubrious stage Irishman's face had moved Critic Burton Rascoe to exclaim: "Never have I seen a man ... so easy, free and natural, so untamed by society, so untouched by conventions, so spontaneous, pagan, joyous." Stephens reminded Rascoe of the leprechauns, the gnomelike creatures the poet had written about in The Crock of Gold, along with the god Pan, philosophers, children, wives, cops, fairies and other inhabitants of the bizarre half-world of Cloca Mora...
...cover and in the color pages following, TIME this week presents works by a handful of modern artists, neither great nor well-known, but inspired by something of the same joyous challenge that inspired Donne. Each has managed to illustrate in his own way a facet of the Christmas story...