Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Corporation to the admissions committee several years ago, and $4000 more kicked in by Dean of the Faculty John T. "Darryl" Dunlop. The actors are, in fact, real-life students supposedly participating in their real-life activities, though in certain scenes-such as a slow-motion sequence of joyous romping in the Radcliffe Quad overlaid with pseudo-classical music-they are, at their most real, life imitating...
...atmosphere in the main room was joyous and several women danced and sang. A blackboard was used for sign-ups for guard duty...
...Elena picks up the relation between privileged performer and plebeian audience where the ending of French Can Can leaves it, namely in a state of joyous common participation in a social spectacle; it transforms this relation into one of sorrowful class distinction. The ending of Elena forces its high-born heroine to adopt the dominant mood of her whole social surrounding, but it denies her a role within it. The inner door-frame, which in early Renoir let privileged heroes pass into the free milieu of the street, here becomes a window that locks the aristocrats into their milieu...
...despite 23 per cent unemployment and 45 per cent inflation, even though the U. S. birth rate has dropped to zero, though there are still divisive elements in our country which have not been eliminated, the American people have once again risen to the challenges of happiness in this joyous season...
...that similar demonstrations might flare up again, particularly if nothing is done about the causes that sparked them. As a final irony, it may be that the atheist leaders of Poland have been given a respite by the mere fact that the riots broke out just before the most joyous of Christian feasts. By heritage, Poland as a nation would be more inclined to spend the season-even a season of discontent-merrymaking at home rather than troublemaking in the streets...