Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Line, which brought a sample and measure of working class pure sport joy to an often-effete and growingly-decadent intellectual community, which brought the reality of teach tourneys and slapshots to university masses, ennervating and vitalizing bland and sterile intellectual pursuits with a vibrant and brutal vivacity and charm, pumping a living and athletic blood into a skeptical and cynical social atmosphere, fusing the gut response with the intellectual considerations, giving and enlightening more than laboratories and lecture podiums could ever hope to enlighten, bringing the street, the gouge-and-vindicate philosophy of the middle- and lower-class...
...Tryon (5) 4-Facing the Lions, Wicker (3) 5-The Billion Dollar Sure Thing, Erdman (4) 6-Once Is Not Enough, Susann (2) 7 -The Summer Before the Dark, Lessing (8) 8-Law And Order, Uhnak (9) 9-The Odessa File, Forsyth (7) 10-Hazard, Browne NONFICTION 1 -The Joy of Sex, Comfort (1) 2-Sybil, Schreiber (2) 3-Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, Atkins (3) 4-How to Be Your Own Best Friend, Newman & Berkowitz (5) 5-Marilyn, Mailer (9) 6-The Making of the President 1972, White 7-Laughing All the Way, Howar (7) 8-The Sovereign State...
...were with Duane; the addition of Chuck Leavell on keyboards is genius. He doesn't actually replace Duane, but it's a nuance of direction, meaning the sound is fuller, as well as differentiated. They can do much more, onstage and in the studio. Their new album is a joy (look for a review on Tuesday), as well as a good sized stride away from their blues base. It's a cinch they shouldn't be missed...
...Joy of Sex, Comfort...
...York-based band of some 40 Protestant pentecostalists who call themselves the New Testament Missionary Fellowship. The group's three-hour Sunday services, in a Manhattan apartment, include robust hymn fests and something called "dancing in the Spirit," a sprightly, solo two-step that expresses their spiritual joy. Otherwise, the fellowship is self-consciously prim. Men wear short haircuts and neat suits; women wear dresses that fall below the knee. Members eschew all nonmarital sex, hold regular jobs, tend to live close to one another as if in some kind of lay monastery. But critics say they are insufferably...