Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ERIC JOY...
...industrious writer: at 54, he has turned out 40 books, not counting revisions or new collections. He likes to travel but has no hobbies. Böll was on his way to Israel when he heard of his prize. He expressed the usual joy and surprise, though only a hermit could not have heard the rumors that swirl like falling leaves each autumn. Shortly afterward, his son Vinzent ungraciously announced that, indeed, his father had been expecting the award. What the young man apparently did not realize was how many other writers were also on tiptoe...
Number one singles player Joy Skon, using a consistent cross-court game, outlasted Pine Manor's first, Marta Schaeffer, 6-3, 6-2. The Crimson number two player, Marcie Richmond, had to depend on her serve to defeat Toni Carton. Lissa Muscatine, who earlier in the afternoon had to defeat teammate Ingrid Sarapuu to play third singles, powered by Pine Manor's Karen Logar...
They are beautiful songs with their roots in the darkest and most beautiful parts of Africa. They are songs that race back to a time when there was no white man, no whip, no shotgun. They are songs that depict the misery and joy of the human condition, they sound a note of freedom and life in the face of imprisonment and death...
...Jews who have experienced real oppression or deep religious joy, Gold's self-centered expressions of fulfillment will seem like romanticized existential ism. In middle age, Gold has really very little to say, except to keep some of his old fans up to date. To be fair, he admits to the modesty of his renewal. If only some of his overblown prose on the subject didn't lead the reader to think Otherwise...