Word: joyousness
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...team was able to place only third in the National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament. In the big game, San Francisco's incomparable Bill Russell, while lazily turning in 26 points against Iowa, spent most of his time dancing in the air like a joyous giraffe and slapping Hawkeye shots out of basket range. The outcome: the San Francisco Dons won their 55th straight victory, their second straight N.C.A.A. championship, and unblemished claim to the title of best college basketball team...
Catherine's Church, Barlach sculpted The Crippled Beggar, face raised as he rests on crutches, feet barely touching the ground, in a gesture that echoes back to the works of Brueghel. Singing Man shows Barlach at his most joyous. The figure, despite the ecclesiastical appearance of his garb, could as well be yodeling as singing God's praise...
...world of the Pacific Northwest's mystic Morris Graves is seen in low-keyed colors: dark browns, misty greys, the glint of surf. Done with techniques heavily influenced by the Orient, his work reveals a world of nature, ranging from joyous pines to blind and wounded birds, that is at once familiar and yet hauntingly mysterious. His current retrospective exhibition of 94 paintings and drawings at Manhattan's Whitney Museum shows what an increasing number of collectors and critics have come to realize: Painter Graves at 45 has developed one of the most successful, personalized idioms...
...love of Joyce Gary's life is life. Inevitably, bits and pieces of his own have cropped up in his joyous string of novels. Gulley Jimson, the rascally painter of The Horse's Mouth, bore the knowing brush strokes of Gary's three-year try at being an artist in turn-of-the-century Paris and Edinburgh. In Mr. Johnson, still the best novel written about modern Africa, Gary drew on his tours of duty as an officer in British West Africa during and after World War I. In A House of Children, written...
...brush. In it, the transition from the blue tablecloth set in the cool interior of what is probably Bonnard's summer house, past the door and window, framing a dark-haired woman, to the shimmering outdoor vibrations, becomes a melodic, orchestrated movement from calm interior repose to the joyous peacefulness of a summer...