Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alice's Restaurant, Arlo Guthrie tells the tale of how he once took a sack of garbage to the dump in Stockbridge, Mass., was arrested for littering, and wound up, much to his joy, rejected by the draft-because he had a police record. Ever since, Arlo has had an abiding belief in the benign power of fate. When he was married last week, the day had been carefully selected in advance by a medium in New York...
What was not clear in the article was a third alternative. It is possible for Nick to pass from his state of sinfulness to an experience of the joy and purpose he describes in the "evangelist." This is not accomplished through any irrational "leap of faith." Rather, through consideration of the historical and philosophical evidence, he can quite reasonably come to accept Jesus Christ both as a real historical person and as the living master of his life. Then the statement "Christ is in me" would be a reality, not a nebulous "religious" idea. Then the problem of sin would...
Besides its brutal attack on institutions, which was a keynote of the revolt in May '68, the situationnists represented the new spirit and new kind of student entering student polities. Joy and laughter became necessary accompaniments of revolutionary action. "The proletarian revolutions will be celebrations or will not be." declared the situationnists. The new radicals were agitators more spontaneous and less ideological than the propagandists in the groupescules...
...guitarist was blessed with the good Scottish name of MacLeod. This drew admiration from everyone, as did MacLeod's two and a half year old daughter who was the common care and joy of the household...
...should not mourn his passing, for he found the one treasure in life so often denied us all-the knowledge that man's happiness is its own vindication, that joy is no sin, that all charity begins at home...