Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...live in a town where developers are tearing the trees down with no thought to the joy and peace they bring. It's great to know there are people who still care enough to try to save...
...Wednesday is a movable fast, and in 1978 it arrives early, on Feb. 8. So Münchner decided to extend the saturnalia into Lent. Churchmen were outraged. The office of the Archbishop of Munich protested that while the church appreciated "the joy of living" expressed in Fasching, it considered the prolongation "totally objectionable." Fumed one priest: "Ash Wednesday is a religious symbol that needs to be preserved even if it hurts business." So much for symbolism. Munich's Fasching organizers canceled masquerades after Ash Wednesday. But other balls and celebrations will go on until March 5, just three...
...attempt to weed out the few hangers-on, the rule change penalizes many still competent golfers. And in the future, it could deny fans the thrill of watching Snead's flawless swing or Boros' stylish shotmaking. Gone too would be the joy simply of seeing a Gene Sarazen stride across a golf course...
...socialised" production by taking productive activity out of the home, he argues, society is now achieving "the socialization of reproduction." While parents still seem to manage their families, they do so under the watchful eyes of doctors, psychiatrists, educators and other "experts." Marriage is invaded by advisers on "the joy of sex" and the proper mix of "love and orgasm...
Indeed, nobody peddling romance in any form seems in grave risk of unhappiness these days. Even books on sex seem to sell best when "joy" is part of the title, and a gossamer tale of juvenile heartbloom and heartbreak called Happy Days is one of the strongest-running sitcoms on the tube. Weightless romance, to be sure, has always been a TV staple, but now the lovelorn soaps have gained such a galvanized following among old and young that television can spoof itself with an unsavory parody of the genre called Soap. Public TV found out not long ago that...