Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deals with a 342-year-old woman who calls herself Emilia Marty. She has not aged much physically, but she has seen, heard and had just about everything and everybody. Longevity has drained away all feeling and left only a beautiful monster of ice and ennui. "There is no joy in goodness, no joy in evil," she says. "When you know that, your soul dies within you." Nevertheless, she is still human enough to be terrified of death, and the opera observes her ruthlessly searching and seducing her way toward a document that holds the prescription for another 300 years...
When Rod Foster collapsed in the Princeton endzone after racing 78 yards, it wasn't because Foster was staggered by the joy of giving John Yovicsin a last winning season...
...Santiago during the national election. Have you ever seen 40-or 50-year-old men cry because of a candidate's victory? I did. And they weren't tears of joy. Tears of despair and agony better describe the trickles of water from their eyes. Tears of realization of the new Communist footing in Latin America...
...capture either a man or a myth. But Mary Magdalene (Yvonne Elliman) has been etched in melodically with Puccini-like tenderness, and the rollicking minstrel beat under the Apostles' chant, "What's the buzz? Tell me what's a-happening," is a Cakewalk of pure joy. The swinging gospel-rock music sung by Judas (Tenor Murray Head) brings him brilliantly to nagging, skeptical, near-paranoid life. Sound effects add to a building sense of drama: the listener hears the slap of 39 lashes over a satiric rock beat, as well as the noise of nails being driven...
...relentless logic, the corporate state deprives people even of the search for their lost wholeness. Only the experiences of "dread, awe, wonder, mystery, accidents, failure, helplessness, magic" make the search possible, and these are denied. In the corporate state, says Reich, "the richness, the satisfactions, the joy of life are to be found in power, success, status, acceptance, popularity, achievements, rewards and the rational, competent mind...