Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parents and their teachers and their neighbors-- and trying to reach the human reality beneath the surface generalizations. And when I think of my mother, of her depression when the children in her class do not perform as well as she had hoped on standardized tests, or of her joy at receiving misspelled Christmas messages at home, I am thankful someone has taken the time and patience to understand...
...displaced Southerners, both black and white, about whom Coles writes in the second of his new books, The South Goes North. Four times Coles watched black Alabama and Mississippi families "slip away from the plantation or cabin and drive off with a look of relief and bitter joy and regret and sadness and triumph." Three times he went along with white families from West Virginia when they moved to Chicago, staying to observe the "settling in" process. But much of his time for six years was spent in regularly visiting ten white families in a working-class section of Boston...
...subway. Sprightly, independent, gregarious, she won a Pulitzer Prize in 1952 for her Collected Poems, but perhaps valued more highly throwing out the first ball to open the 1968 baseball season in Yankee Stadium. As she once wrote, "Satisfaction is a lowly thing, how pure a thing is joy./ This is mortality./ This is eternity...
...practically useless to divide Burgess's relatively short and unusually prolific writing career into creative periods. Although light years away in style and impact, One Hand, like Clockwork, is an example of Burgess's concern that modern man has all but shut himself away from spiritual joy...
Simon is said to be anxious nowadays about his place in rock history, concerned that he has not been ranked with the likes of Bob Dylan and the Beatles. He may not rank quite that high, but part of the joy of his music has always been its unpretentiousness, the fun that went into it. He sounds more like the real Simon when he says: "I love my own music. I can work on my music, or sit and play the guitar, all night, and I love it because it's me and I'm making...