Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though blacks have immortalized the blues and keened their sorrows in spirituals, they have also been immersed in the spirit of evangelical joy. The American black is steeped in Christian fervor, and though he may profess secular aims and agnostic convictions he is also a creature of the Gospel. Part of his being "rocks church" at an invisible but perpetual revival meeting. Some of the songs and dances in Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope comment very seriously on the social injustices still visited on the heirs of slavery, but the inner jubilation that ignites...
There is little doubt as to what news item brought the most joy to indecisive, job-hunting undergraduates this week. Applications to the Law School leveled off in 1972 after four years of staggering increase. Combined with decreases at the Business and Med Schools, this fact provides new fodder for academic trend watchers...
Radcliffe's strong singles contingent captured every set. First singles Meg Morgan won the first set 6-1, gaining a tougher 7-5 victory in the second set. Joy Skon, at number two, posted a easy 6-3, 6-0 victory, while Jill Robertson won a sound 6-2, 6-2 match over her Bradford opponent at number three. Ingrid Seapuu rounded out the singles, with an impressive...
...eluded capture by the British for more than two years-a fact that spawned his nickname, "Joe the Fox." It was said that he had shot as many as 15 British soldiers. McCann's luck ran out when police plainclothesmen spotted him in a narrow Belfast thoroughfare called Joy Street. As he tried to run, he was shot and killed by soldiers...
...gave himself over to the problems of his age, willingly but without joy, knowing exactly what he was gaining and what he was giving up by doing so. In 1936 he wrote to Henry Miller, "I have a sort of belly-to-earth attitude and always feel uneasy when I get away from the ordinary world where grass is green, stones hard, etc." This belly-to-earth attitude was the mainstay of his political thought; his consciousness of the small facts of life shows up in all his pieces of reportage and analysis: although he may frankly admit that...