Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...takes a crisis to jolt Americans out of their soft, sure ways, their near-total reliance on delivered technology: gas, electricity, oil, cars, trains, buses. To rediscover self-reliance and individual responsibility, and the kind of joy that can be pressed most sweetly from hard times. To re-establish old wisdom and simple certitudes: hot chestnuts in the hand, calories in the tum. Above all, it is a time to take private inventory of friends and bosses, associates, acquaintances and lovers, past, present and putative...
Show a common joy in observing...
...Saturday at Oddfellows Hall, alias the Joy of Movement Center, 536 Mass. Ave., Central Square, two dollars buys you a concert of British, Australian, Canadian and American songs and ballads given by Priscilla Herdman and Deborah Saperstone. All the concert publicity says with an air of significance that it's "sponsored by Peter Johnson." This means Johnson will be eating cat food if no one shows up. The concert starts at 8:00 pm. 492-4680 for interesting stories about Johnson...
Wilson asserts that "the summed Darwinian fitness of the tribe" is "the ultimate if unrecognized beneficiary of warfare" and speaks of "the true biological joy of warfare...
...Elders and Just a Little Bit of Jesus Goes a Long Way). Betrayal follows (Judas Dance), then the Crucifixion (See How They Done My Lord) and the Resurrection (Can't No Grave Hold My Body Down). The company erupts in Choreographer Talley Beatty's dance explosion of joy. This is much like the New Orleans ritual of the funeral parade - all dirge on the way to the cemetery and unholy glee on the way back to town...