Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just come out of a war that did no good for anybody. It killed more people than a mind can imagine, over 40,000 of them Americans. Even those that defended it then can find no joy in its memory...
...capital to visit the captured areas. Thus most of the scattered reports about conditions in South Viet Nam's northern provinces have been issued by the "Liberation Press Agency" of the Provisional Revolutionary Government. These euphoric communiqués stress the "delirious welcomes from the crowds" and the "joy on the part of the liberated populations" but say little about what has been happening to the people or the problems the Communists face in taking over so large an area so rapidly...
...doubtful if Mrs. Woodside ever saw a real war protester, but she shares some of the same sentiment. Part of the reason is the war diary of her Uncle John. In it is a half-written letter. "It was full of joy and boyish hopes," she says. "He wrote about the letters he had got from girls, which girl he had chosen for his sweetheart. He never finished the letter. He was killed. Such a waste." That was in the Civil War. Her grandson was in Viet...
...PROMISE OF JOY...
History and politics are at least debatable. The Drury prose usually defies all discourse. It should be noted, however, that The Promise of Joy has nothing to do with cooking or sex. It is about a crisis during the first weeks of the presidency of Orrin Knox, whom Drury readers will remember as the Secretary of State in Advise and Consent, and a vice-presidential nominee in Capable of Honor. In this book Knox succeeds to the presidency after the assassination of Edward M. Jason, and he is called upon to decide nothing less than the fate of Western civilization...