Word: joys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Visit Spain if you seek lively and lovely joy...
...English appears on a big poster in the lobby of the Hotel Condestable in brown old Burgos. Similar appeals from a dollar-hungry Government can be seen in most of the world's tourist offices. Whether you will find what they promise depends on your definition of joy...
...this lively joy, the Government hopes, will keep the tourists' attention from the tuberculous children of the Vallecas slums, or the cave dwellers in the sandy hills outside Madrid, or the beggars who inconsiderately paw at the sleeves of guests exhausted after a night's dancing at the lovely Ritz gardens. Madrid's unskilled workers live on cheap fish, beans, occasional rice, watered wine. The housing situation is desperate. After years of waiting, some young couples are still looking for a chance to sublet a single room in the city's cheapest slum before they...
...Harmonious Majority." Life under the Ekwilist (equalitarian) regime is sketched by Nabokov with a disgusted charm unequaled by contemporary satirists. He has an ear for the obscene overtones of the dictator's loudspeaker: " 'From now on,' continued the tremendously swollen Tyrannosaurus, 'the way to total joy lies open. You will attain it, brothers, by dint of ardent intercourse with one another ... by adjusting ideas and emotions to those of a harmonious majority ... by letting your person dissolve in the virile oneness of the State...
There was no joy in Odessa. Telephones rang and excited voices demanded, "Give us back Kudymenko, Zhigan and Sevastyanov!" The staid Soviet trade-union newspaper Trud headlined excitedly: "Kidnaping in Odessa." Three of the city's leading football (i.e., soccer) heroes -as dear to Odessa as Williams to Boston or Feller to Cleveland-had disappeared...