Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...holidays, they say, and especially Christmas, inflame neurosis, trigger depression, accentuate loneliness. The very expectation of joy becomes a source of gloom. Adults get pressured into the hypocrisy of mingling with people they do not like and going to churches they do not believe in. Children get confused by the Santa hokum; they wind up either addicted to greed by too many presents or ridden with envy by too few. Families obliged to reassemble are rent by old grudges set to festering again. Furthermore, since Christmas dominates the marathon Thanksgiving-to-New Year's celebrations, non-Christians get painful...
...seems too that Kate and Anna have rediscovered their families; they are not as concerned with each other now. They'll do songs like Anna's "Bundle of Sorrow, Bundle of Joy" which celebrates her family with lines like "I love my kid, I love my kid. "Their best songs from their previous albums were about each other, about really loving your sister. "Tell My Sister," and "Kitty Come Home" had sensitive lyrics that stayed miles away from sappiness. Disappointingly, Pronto Monto has not one sister song, but then again, not everyone has a sister...
...Northern California lumber town of Burney, Don Whitman, 67, closed down his barbershop and his wife Edna locked her antique shop, and the two of them renewed a family tradition: cutting Christmas trees. "It's a happiness business," says Mrs. Whitman. "I imagine all the excitement and joy connected with every Christmas tree I cut." By the time they are through, they will have cut 60,000. For that they give thanks...
...measure political joy by John and Bob Kennedy. It is their special legacy, burned into the national consciousness 15 years ago Wednesday, when J.F.K, was assassinated. It has been enlarged in the intervening years as we have distilled the pure pleasure from the murky broth of reality of the 1960s...
...Penelope Wilton). In the drunken pass that ignites the affair in Scene 9, Jerry says to Emma, "I should have had you, in your white, before the wedding." Lust will find a way. Jerry rents a place in the country, and the pair make love in the afternoons. But joy is applied like a cosmetic, and pain is masked in a clipped orgy of understatement...