Word: joyousness
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...Subject Was Roses. Frank D. Gilroy wrote this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of a young man returning from the war to a not so joyous homecoming. Jack Albertson won a Tony award for his role as the father who shares a new rapport with his returned son, played by Martin Sheen. Patricia Neal is the wife and mother who realizes the tragic and painful truths brought to the surface by her son's arrival. An excellent drama with its highly honored cast intact. Channel...
Fidel Castro is older now, and the euphoria of revolution dims before the ongoing tasks of socialist construction. But the romantic aspects of revolution live on, in Cuba perhaps more than elsewhere. The sense that revolution is joyous as well as arduous will never really die there...
Berryman's final book of poems, Delusions, etc. points to this funny twist of Irony in his Belief. The book is mainly a series of daily prayers, some overwhelmingly joyous, many serious addresses to God. Only a few of these last poems are sad. But then there is the title, and a picture of a smug Berryman staring out--is he laughing to himself or finally at ease...
...tourists do in the contrasts and paradoxes of their extraordinary homeland. Lod was a fortified city in the days of Joshua; its motto is taken from the prophet Jeremiah: "Thy children shall come again to their own border." At the site of this ancient citadel, giant jetliners today disgorge joyous refugees from the Soviet Union, the source of the latest aliyah. Horse-drawn carts rattle through the streets of nearby Ramla, while Phantom and Skyhawk jets scream overhead. Beneath the Qumran caves, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, picnickers romp along the shores of the Dead Sea. In Rehovoth...
...North Vietnamese are taking no chances. The Price of Peace cuts from joyous throngs in Hanoi last February celebrating Tet to anti-aircraft crews drilling, still watching and waiting. In a stunning, red-filtered rapid-fire sequence, the film then returns to the awful scene last Christmas. Air raid sirens wail in the background, Hanoi's people retrace familiar paths to their bomb shelters, gun crews peer upward into the darkness, bombs carpet the screaming night, missiles streak skyward, periodically to rendezvous with their unwilling targets...