Word: joys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wolff, who won the 1985 PEN/Faulkner award for the novella "The Barracks Thief," writes accurately about the myriad isolations of military life. "The Barracks Thief" is about a boy so angry he has no space for other emotions; he falls naturally into soldiering. "Soldier's Joy" hearkens back to the emotional territory of "The Barracks Thief." The story, like its predecessor, is about how soldiers socialize, or fail to socialize with one another...
Back in the World is refreshing for its variety. "Soldier's Joy" is a venture into despair that we almost don't escape. "The Missing Person," on the other hand, has a protagonist who is almost as strange and lost and cynical as his counterpart in "Soldier's Joy." He is a priest whom life has clubbed with one disgrace after another, but who begins a quiet, enduring love affair with a woman he meets by chance at a hotel...
...these ploys, the major comic publishers now anticipate profits that exceed those of the medium's golden age, the '40s. Income last year reached $75 million, and this year is expected to be significantly better. Money, in short, to make any superhero leap tall buildings for joy at a single bound...
Beauty pageants are supposed to be Cinderella tales, where at the grand finale the queen sobs tears of joy while the losers hug her valiantly. Last week the Miss Thailand World contest ended up in a guerrilla-style skirmish that looked more like a nasty palace coup. While TV cameras recorded the scene, Newly Crowned Saengravee Asavarak, 22, was beaming before a Bangkok audience of 2,000 when someone grabbed her tiara and put it on the head of the sobbing first runner-up. Then another hand attempted to pull off her winner's sash. Saengravee was popular with...
...world: men and women linked arm to arm guarding the ballot boxes; computer technicians hired by the government to do the official count walking out of the fraudulent tabulation; tens of thousands of men and women, with their children about them, in vigil, half in fear, half in joy, guarding with their bodies the small detachment of rebel soldiers; nuns kneeling in the path of oncoming tanks; a nation rising to a new dignity. These images, and more, chronicled for all the world the courage and pride of a people, their deep faith in the rightness of their cause...