Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parents, people of stamina and principle, who have weathered 50 years of marriage. On the other side is Charley's son, who flaunts his liberated liaison with a girl he doesn't intend to wed, and who upbraids his father for choosing durability at the cost of joy...
...raucous city life. No drinkers carouse at Hopper's bars, no oil-skinned fishermen haul Hopper's nets. He is an intense artist of the arrested moment, of the intermission between Act I and Act II of a play still being written. In general, there is no joy in the contemplation; the past seems full but futile, the future bleak but bearable. In the meantime, Hopper proposes the lean, almost unnoticed consolation of street lamplight on brownstone, of sunlight on lonely houses -and he paints the light and the loneliness as well as anyone...
Hegge now reports that the Nobel prizewinner's joy was soon blighted-not so much by the leaders of the Soviet Union but by the government of democratic Sweden. In a short, explosive book, Go-Between in Moscow, to be published this week in Stockholm and Oslo, Hegge adds a disturbing chapter to the record of Solzhenitsyn's misfortunes. Solzhenitsyn chose Hegge to act for him in making arrangements with the Swedish embassy for receiving the award. This was necessary because Solzhenitsyn was under constant police surveillance and the target of fierce attack in the Soviet press...
Damaging Years. Despite such troubles, many single mothers think that parenthood is the best thing that ever happened to them. "My complaints are minor," Peggy insists. "Ninetynine percent of the time, having Peter is a joy." Moreover, she believes, and her friends confirm, that she has changed for the better: "I've become a much softer person. I treat people with more kindness, and I'm less selfish...
...York Giants. For decades the very name was one for opponents in two sports to reckon with, a source of joy (and sometimes sorrow) to New York's football and baseball fans. Who can forget the little miracle of Coogan's Bluff, when Bobby Thomson's ninth-inning home run in the old Polo Grounds beat the hated Dodgers in a 1951 play-off and won for the baseball Giants an impossible pennant? Or the frigid December day in 1934 when the football Giants, playing on a frozen field, switched from spikes to sneakers at halftime...