The play traces two families: the Hogbens, who prepare themselves for the funeral of Mrs Hogben's sister Daise Morrow, and their neighbours the Whalleys who are off for a day of pleasure and profiteering at the local dump.
A few years later, Michael di Capua, an editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux who worked on Isaac Bashevis Singer's "Day of Pleasure"— which was illustrated with 17 Vishniac photographs — began editing a new volume of Vishniac's work, under the title "A Vanished World".
It is a day of joy and pleasure, sharing and fun, a day of eating and drinking, games of touch football amid the crunch of gold and red foliage and a day to celebrate being American.
Conor's father (Toby Kebbell) lives in Los Angeles and puts in a rare appearance, taking him to an amusement park for a day of passing pleasure that doesn't make a dent in Conor's crisis.
On a recent visit to see Colin, McNary and her husband took their son out for a day of small pleasures, like eating a doughnut.
Perhaps, one day the extremes of pleasure in the animal kingdom will help solve the most extremes of despair in our own species.
The title poem of The Slant Door (1979) lets a red door leaning on a garden shed at the end of a fine day induce a blend of pleasure and anxiety: "you don't know what it is that means or moves", the speaker tells himself as he waits for rain.
"We don't take a lot of vacations, so I really was able to convince them," says Kevin, who pinpointed a hotel, the Lodge, with indoor and outdoor pools, and a reasonable rate, and set up a schedule -- one day heavy on the rides; one day of more sedate pleasures.
My only moment of pleasure each day -- eating a chocolate chip ice cream sandwich in the cafeteria.
For many more, it means jobs they long to leave on Friday afternoon for brief glimpses of pleasure on the weekend.
"It's not only somewhere I go shopping, it's a big party for me, a moment of pleasure on Sunday morning," said Corinne Simon-Duneau, 63, who lives in South Pasadena.
