Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then Alyosha in his rimless glasses and his gold brocade with the purple feathers for an instant became again the Melvin Lang from Rockaway, CP and son of CP, he had been in another incarnation. "WE AWAIT WITH JOY THE WITHERING AWAY OF THE MASTER," he in toned. Then, taking Sam's big hands in his own and stroking their backs intimately, Alyosha said, "Come to Mexico with us Sam, and see if I can wither away...
Works like this: I am in my house. I am watching the keeds play on the beach. I am watching Alfred watch Girl go horsing around for joy in the cold Pacific swells. I want Alfred to be renamed Boy if he is going to be Girl's boy. For symmetry I foster. There is a reason he can't be renamed which I don't remember right now. But I will remember some time which means...
...Savoring Joy only on LP rather than in the theater costs the listener a few visual delights, notably the pleasure of watching Jean Pace (Brown's wife) smile like the girls in Vogue wish they could and dance like the priestesses in Aida definitely should. But the LP blesses the ear with her Brown Baby and Afro Blue. It also offers Oscar and a Brazilian wizard named Sivuca (pianist, accordionist, guitarist, world's funkiest falsetto) singing and playing a small treasury of other inter-American gems...
...musical sense, Joy is not black. Brown owes as much to Gershwin, say, as Gershwin does to old blues roots. But what he consistently conveys is the life attitude of the black man who wants to be a man first and black second -not the other way around, as so often happens these days. Joy comes when whites understand and agree. Brown's ambition is that Joy will offer a common musical meeting place for black and white America. "Joy, not guns or hate, is the strongest force in the world," says Brown. "I want to use that force...
...fervor to Purlie's evangelistic soliloquies, the cute cutup who steals the show, the evening and the audience's heart is the back-country girl (Melba Moore) who falls in love with Purlie. Melba Moore is a delightfully innocent minx, a girl who seems to have swallowed joy for breakfast. When she sings, the sun shines in, and when she dances, her feet play truant from the earth...