Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...score is by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe-their first collaboration since Camelot in 1960. The music misses the simple, rhapsodic melancholy Saint-Exupéry achieved in his prose, but it excels at capturing the pilot's wistfulness, the Little Prince's spirit and their joy in finding each other...
That is what is so exuberantly evident on the boards of the Mark Taper. Tragedy or not, the players are celebrating the joy of acting. Tragedy or not, what is O'Casey celebrating? A trinity of profound, if currently unfashionable values-God, country and family. Not for a single moment during Juno and the Paycock is one unaware that Roman Catholicism, Ireland and the Boyles' intense awareness of themselves as an embattled entity have shaped the people that we see before us. Not for the good, necessarily. O'Casey had as sharp an eye as James Joyce...
...Glory and the Dream, depending on how one reads it, is Pop history, a nostalgia trip or the world's biggest trivia contest. Manchester (as he showed in The Death of a President, 1967) is one of those writers who find their supreme joy only in the presence of a fact, and sometimes it doesn't seem to matter what sort of a fact it is. When Astronaut Neil Armstrong took his "one small step for man," the reader is going to know it was in a boot sized 9½B. The day President Eisenhower suffered...
...Howard happens to show for the game, it is safe to say that he will be treated to a captivating exhibition of athletic endeavor. The joy of victory, as he would have it. The agony of defeat...
While the Beatles and Dylan were unquestionably the prime movers in this process, it was the Rolling Stones who most directly and simply reawakened in us a sense of our own bodies, of the pure joy of dancing to the point of collapse. The Beatles were somehow too sweet, and Dylan never was much good for doing the boogaloo to, but the Stones celebrated the physical side of our natures, which in most cases had been long buried. (It is a sign of the abysmal racism of both the counterculture and the parent culture from which it sprang that...