Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neither the gloom of Beethoven nor the melancholy of Chopin. The Reformation Symphony, for example, is religiosity at its most cloying, and Elijah, tender as its pastoral moments are, simply does not convey the full might of its subject. What Mendelssohn did know about was order, proportion, logic and joy. He was a better orchestrator than either Schumann or Brahms. In some of his juvenile operas, he experimented with leitmotifs-long before Wagner. His greatest innovations came in the realm of orchestral color-ruddy brass canvases, fragile wood-wind-and-string pastels that give the Midsummer Night's Dream...
...easy to get spoiled," she worries. "I love the cars and the roses and the champagne, and my mother is just floating with joy. But I feel uneasy. You get too used to it. You count your values and one day you begin to ask: 'Why didn't they send me roses today...
...Joy of Sex, Comfort...
...enters and "all of the guests uttered loud exclamations of fatigue and disgust, examining the situation in the light of their own needs..." Poor old psychoanalysis gets its lumps again in The Sandman. The lover of the analysand writes a very convincing letter to the analyst, arguing respectfully that "Joy is not Susan's bag," and that she really would rather use the money to buy a piano...
...Luce and His Empire, Swanberg 9-The Joy of Sex, Comfort 10-Paris Was Yesterday 1925-1939, Planner