Word: joy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy's impact does not stop at the power shifts his campaign style encouraged. He brought to the electorate the feeling that political life could be meaningful as well as exciting. Campaigning against the "politics of joy," he was the first American politician since his brother to bring a sense of gleeful buoyancy back to the hustings. Kennedy's name and good looks aside, much of this happy frenzy was due to his audience's knowledge that only Kennedy gave sure promise of ending -- or at least transforming -- the dull pain emanating from the nation's capital these days...
...intensity of feeling against the war, the draft, and the "politics of joy" will keep practically all the traditional liberals from endorsing Humphery, forcing them down the radicalization trail they were beginning to follow last winter...
William Surface (the name is just too much joy) is conducting a small battle in class warfare. It is the author as a tough and experienced, yet fair and just police sergeant trying to cope with a misguided upper class of intellectuals. He repeatedly slurs them with the label "elite", a word that implies unfair competitive advantage and caste-like social separation...
...convention in Kansas City, Mo., "would spend more time getting on with the job and less cussing out the cows-or crying crocodile tears about everything in general-we would all be better off." Indeed, if anything nettles Humphrey, it is Kennedy's implication that his "politics of joy" is frivolous and smug. "Hubert," said a sign at one of his Manhattan appearances, "is a stalking horse for Pollyanna...
...John Updike's Couples read like a children's bedtime story. Besides incomparable good looks, Yuichi has the aphrodisiac of complete heartlessness going for him. Other people exist only as narcissistic mirrors in whose admiring eyes he enjoys himself. The old novelist gives him speeches on "the joy of being without feeling." He hardly needs them...