Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young. The church itself, several prelates conceded, turned off many youths. "The young person is looking for a model of Christ and the Gospel in the ministers," said Archbishop John Quinn of Oklahoma City. "In the eyes of the young those qualities [of Jesus] that are most important-joy, love and kindness, patience and tolerance, an open mind and a willingness to listen, a spirit of compassion and concern, simplicity and directness -are often missing in the ministers...
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...illustrates this thesis by explaining how the soloist expresses how "things should be" in America with his improvisational expression of black joy and freedom, while the rhythm section, with its repetition of one melody over and over again, represents black life as it is--restrained, helpless, and stagnant--"how things really are." What injuries the credibility of The Cry of Jazz is Bland's not-so-logical deduction that because whites haven't suffered they plainly can't understand, and therefore can't create, play or even listen correctly to jazz compositions...
There are translation jokes: Keats' "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" goes through a Russian sieve and becomes "A pretty bauble always gladdens us." There is a half-hearted sort of dabbling with modernist experimentation: Vadim suspects that he is subject to the whims of a higher authorial power, and is bothered...