Word: joys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...U.S.S. Destroyers Maddox and Turner Joy report being attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in Tonkin Gulf. (No damage done, and reports of attack may have been greatly exaggerated.) President Johnson orders a retaliatory raid against North Vietnamese gunboats and "supporting" facilities...
While Buchwald mocks with broad burlesque, Baker approaches Campaign '72 in a whimsical fashion that is more serious and sometimes bitter. He describes his joy at being visited by a pollster, only to find that the survey concerns 1980; the present contest was settled in a sampling taken last July, and the 1976 election was decided only the previous week ("You'll be amazed," says the pollster, "how that one came out"). In another column, the average American voter is angry at being accosted by a candidate in a parking lot. "When my worst instincts are appealed...
...life is full of joy, for I am in my motherland. Work, my country and my language-to them I dedicate my youth and my strength. I can see in my imagination how we shall build the foundation of a national life. Stone by stone we are rebuilding the land laid waste thousands of years ago. I am happy that I am one of the builders. -Shmuel Dayan...
...Perry gradually got the poor of Mingo County to feel happy in ways the politicians had not expected; they found joy in banding together to exercise a power they had never known before. Their projects were hardly radical. They kept their children out of class to force stingy school boards to expand hot-lunch programs and to repair schools and outhouses. They established cooperative grocery stores to bypass merchants who raised prices on days when food stamps were issued. They exposed officials who used state-financed work gangs to improve their private property. They documented the practice of bureaucrats...
...Trains, Jiri Menzel's film about a young rail station guard who tries to grow up during World War II, when all stable values are in question, was one of the series of fine Czech films which emerged before the '68 freeze. Menzel creates an exhilirating mix of adolescent joy and adolescent despair; suicide takes its turn, as does hilariously playful sex. But the boy blows up with his world...