Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traveled almost 100,000 miles covering Lady Bird in splendid pal aces and even more splendid wildernesses. This time the questions I had to ask were deeply personal, but she talked as perceptively as always, with a poetic turn of phrase, unabashed candor and an unquelled sense of joy. She is a truly remarkable woman...
Their special joy was intoning "the President wants ..." That was enough to persuade many doubters. Another line that gained currency was "I have a mandate from the Pres ident ..." What that meant nobody really knew, but it sounded authoritative. In case of defiance, the talk sometimes got rougher. One Nixon aide heard Ehrlichman bark: "If he won't do it, fire him." Another venomous official told doubtful minions: "Remember, you are all serving at my pleasure...
...many of his most popular rags were orchestrated for marching, singing, dancing and just plain strutting. The orchestrations, New Orleans in style (squeaky clarinets and feisty trumpets), make good listening too. Indeed there is not a pianist around these days who-so far, at least-can match the cascading joy of these performances...
...diva has learned, Chapin's tact and graciousness do not signal a relaxed will. He pushed hard and successfully for the company's new Mini-Met, devoted to intimate or experimental operas in small halls with mostly young casts. To the Met staff's evident joy, he preserved and deepened the aura of good will between management and unions fostered by his predecessor, Goran Gentele, who was killed last July in a car crash in Sardinia before he ever really had a chance...
...lies surrounding human relations, Ingmar Bergman moulds an emotional, womb-like turn-of-the-century world where two sisters and a servant attend the third sister just before her death. The whispers which make up life and the cries which punctuate it lead nowhere; the daying woman finds joy before her death because her family is near, but this lyrical glimmer is not a way out for those still alive. Bergman's most recent film, in color, with brilliant cinematography by Sven Nykvist. 1972. The Naked Night. During a single day's action, we see the owner of an impoverished...