Word: joyousness
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Where the book called up images of lovely backwoods flora and fauna, the film has the artsy-craftsy exotica of Trader Vic's. The book's Anna Vorontosov was an interestingly unbalanced woman whose salvation came from the joyous dangers she found in teaching; the movie's Anna alternates between being cute and fighting for her virtue. One moment she plods through a witless musical routine about Pogo, the next she is braining Hero Harvey for ripping open her blouse (with cretinous whinnies of "Open sesame!"). And where it was right for the hero to blow...
...home yet? Where is my home?"--and not despair of its baldness. The final scene is, as Poirier notes, "brilliantly timed," a climax of power evoking a grand release of tension in the reader, reminding him of his inescapable wish to recapture the happiness of the past, "that joyous certainty, that sense of moving and being moved, of being one and indivisible with the great of the past, with all mankind...
Their veneration for and devotion to the Buddhist faith, their respect for their King and their elders, their tolerant philosophy of life, their artistic achievements, their joyous customs, and their friendliness and hospitality are surely admirable qualities and worth bringing to the attention of Americans...
Commented one joyous member of the cast: "We feel this is a very, very big; very, very wonderful break...
...review of such a joyous and holy work as Le Jeu de Saint Nicolas would be a desecration. So I shall merely annotate the program notes, a copy of which is presented free to every paying customer...