Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have shared honest work, and strangers well-met along the way? We are going to have to take risks to build social contexts for that kind of life--risks in some instances with nearly overwhelming feelings of loss, loneliness, pain, and humility along the way to a deeper joy we have scarcely remember exists, yet never completely forgotten...
Another intriguing place in Central Square is the Odd Fellows Hall, a narrow brick building with stained glass windows. The Joy of Movement Center rents it now, but an outgoing dancer with unkempt hair and lots of bedraggled skirts assured me that there are still Odd Fellows in Central Square; she said the organization was "for old men, essentially, like the Elks or the Moose Club." There must be something to this group that the other two lack, though, because it alone rates a cryptic definition in the American Heritage Dictionary: "Odd Fellow: A member of the Independent Order...
...inner core of the politician to begin with. The kind of person who picks politics for a career is one who is not comfortable with one-on-one relationships. He prefers, all too often, the roar of the crowd." Among the results of such pressures: Joy Baker, after living most of her life for two Senators−father, Everett Dirksen and husband, Howard Baker−says sadly, "Politics has nullified my personality." Sharon Percy Rockefeller reports that her three-year-old son struck angrily at the TV set when his father, Jay Rockefeller, was interviewed because the child...
...cuts to faces in the audience, returning continually to one, the wondering, wise countenance of a girl who seems ageless. Recalling the director's childhood memories of the opera, she could serve as a surrogate for Bergman and perhaps for all of us. In her is reflected the joy and wisdom of The Magic Flute, which Bergman has captured here forever...
...Belmont, however, these issues form a small fraction of the bookshelves. The pride and joy of Society headquarters is the $40,000 mail-stuffing machine, which according to Gotch, can put as many as nine enclosures in a letter, fold, seal, and stamp a computer-typed address on it, and churn 'em out at 50 per minute...