Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Triumph of Joy. Sasha Schneider, himself the former second violinist of the Budapest Quartet and the guiding genius behind the annual Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, is a man ill equipped by talent or temperament to put up with total beginners. Each participant arrived with a full supply of credentials, plus technique-gained largely from such conservatories as Eastman, Curtis or Juilliard. But at competitive schools like these, there is often an overwhelming emphasis on individual virtuosity and solo work. Schneider's main purpose was to teach the youngsters both the difficulties and the joys of making music together...
...Crimson triumph, however, was not cause for excessive joy. Harvard led by ten at halftime, 32-22, but the margin should have been 20 points. The Tigers only shot 33 per cent (in first half), and though Harvard overpowered Princeton on the boards, 31-18, it missed several easy rebound baskets...
...language of the poems, and their images, keep recurring, it is only because the basic theme of Nelly Sachs's poetry was unchanging. She is a poet of suffering, not of joy, one whose only experience in life is agony, and who expresses it in her poetry, attempting to sum up the sufferings of her nation in print. The theme is unwavering, although explored in every possible detail...
...still exists and functions better in individuals than in institutions which may churn our these discoveries faster. The greatest value of such discoveries is in the making of them. As improvements, they hardly affect the quality of life. Moreover an institution making a collective discovery does not respond with joy of the charming human sort. The occasional incidents of one man's joy of discovery are perhaps more important to the quality of life and the advancement of learning than the discovery itself...
...Joy to unborn children, curled