Word: joying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dreams of Aid. Older musicians complain that the new, cerebral audience has taken all the joy out of jazz. "The extreme hips try to contemplate jazz rather than enjoy it," says Drummer Shelly Manne. "The audience isn't participating any more. They don't even tap their feet." Foot-tapping, of course, is unthinkable to those engaged in metaphysical seeking. "In me, jazz causes a great inner stirring," says an extreme hip. "It's an inner satisfaction unlike anything else. It's exciting, but more. It's a feeling like being tickled...
...When Alfredo Ottaviani, Secretary of the Holy Office and senior Cardinal-Deacon of the Sacred College, at last appeared on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica with a retinue of clerics, a vast roar came up from the crowd. "I announce to you tidings of great joy," he intoned hoarsely in Latin. "Habemus papam-we have a Pope. He is the most eminent and most Reverend Lord Cardinal Giovanni Battista...
...onetime Esquire staffer with a sharp eye for a salable commodity that is spelled sex. In 1958 he published An Unhurried View of Erotica, a sort of bibliography of banned books, and sold 275,000 copies. Last year he began publishing Eros, a quarterly "devoted to the joy of love." At $10 a copy, Eros offers little more than what can be picked up by a determined voyeur with scissors and a library card-a reworking of Lysistrata, ribald pieces by De Maupassant and Balzac, Frank Harris' My Life and Loves-but Ginzburg claims he now has a circulation...
...other's cues, but throughout their dazzling program neither faltered at all. Ashkenazy played with great excitement and vigor, and Frager-who also charmed the audience with his perfect Russian-was every bit his match. But the thing that made the evening electrifying was the evidence of such joy in music making, the proof of such harmony in friendship...
...admired Zionists as "idealists" and said that he, too, wanted to give the Jews a home of their own. He was sincerely shaken, Arendt believes, when he learned of the Führer's "Final Solution"-to kill the Jews. "I now lost everything," he moaned, "all joy in my work, all initiative, all interest; I was, so to speak, blown out." But he quickly made the adjustment. He became as efficient at transporting Jews to the death camps as he had earlier been at relocating them. Orders, after all, were orders...