Word: joyless
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...stood on the curb, caught on the knife edge between two unhappy and possibly hopeless worlds. Behind me was a bank window, offering joyless, useless prizes for opening an account. Across the street were the kids, ramming their way into the mad jumble of Bryant Park. Later, the militants-the YAWFs, the Progressive Labor S.D.S. wing and others-fought their way onto the platform and kept off speakers they did not approve of. If that was the future, it, too, would be a joyless prize...
...classics. Innumerable others were denounced as wicked when they first appeared. Yet almost everyone agrees that there is such a thing as pornography and that it is bad. No less an authority than Henry Miller recently denounced pornography as "a leering or lecherous disguise" that has helped make sexuality joyless. On any level of creative intent, it is hard to defend the bulk of salacious literature being churned out today. Most of it is perverse, narcissistic, brutal, irrational. And boring. As George Steiner observed: "The number of ways in which orgasm can be achieved or arrested, the total modes...
...called authorities, who far too often react to every moral question raised by the young with incredible stupidity and obscene cruelty. This grandmother is full of contempt for the lazy, sloppy sheep of her generation who prefer to maim or kill a child rather than question their own joyless values...
...said that after a particularly bad run-through of the second act--one that was dead, joyless, dull. Cooper then said, as his cast sat on the floor around him, "Now I want you to get up and walk around." They did. A minute or so later, he said, "Now start to make noises at each other. Make a noise and make it at someone." What happened was very eerie to watch; for the actors began to grunt at each other, and then, as though high on the action around them to physically contact each other, bumping, then shoving...
...still too early to say that Harvard's long-suffering basketball fans are in for another joyless season. But there are some ominous signs, such as the Crimson's 81-78 loss to Springfield on Saturday...