Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure whether to thank you for your article on James Taylor or to cry about it. All the references to his joy of privacy mean nothing, since by doing the spread you are violating that joy even while you write sympathetically about...
...twelve-tone music. Like England's Benjamin Britten, Menotti is well aware that after 50 or more years, serialism and atonality have never become a common "spoken" language. He doubts that they ever will. "Atonal music," he says flatly, "is essentially pessimistic. It is incapable of expressing joy or humor." Menotti is correct about the joylessness of atonality. What he has failed to detect is the vast freedom that atonality has given certain contemporary composers who care about exploring the anxious mind and soul of modern...
...Considering Mitchell's own background, it was no surprise that the troupe sometimes looked a bit like a beige and sepia training school for the New York City Ballet. A trifle raw and stiff, Mitchell's young dancers nevertheless brought to the stage a springlike vitality and joy very much their own. Their version of Jerome Robbins' Afternoon of a Faun, a staple of the City Ballet Repertory, did not have the studied, languid ease customarily provided by Balanchine's company, but it did project an affecting awkwardness and feeling entirely appropriate to a story about...
...Peltier just stayed on his stomach as the Minnesota bench emptied and threw itself upon him in joy...
...Memorial Drive was not taken as a "hostage." It is not merely a symbol of women's togetherness; it is the vibrant reality of what these particular women are asking for, of what women have desperately needed all along. It fills the empty slogan "female solidarity" with the joy, love and activity these words were meant to connote. These women are not simply asking for a women's center; they have created...