Word: joylessness
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...with this fine history behind them, it is a joyless task to report that Focus On Me, Caravan's new production that opened last week, just doesn't work. The play was written by the company's director, Bobbi Ausubel, under a grant given by the Radcliffe Institute. It is about (using the word advisedly) a woman filmmaker, Toni, trying to create a film prototype of a strong woman. She parades before us a succession of archetype images (amazon and mother), discarding each in turn as insufficient. He finally settles on one that is supposed to be a synthesis...
...Young people] recognize the paradox of the joyless herald of the Good News and are repelled by it." Even more strongly, Bernard Cardinal Alfrink of The Netherlands asked the bishops to "examine their consciences" to see if they did not "obscure the image of the church and damage her credibility...
...worse. Several times last week Pat Nixon visited the bedside of her husband as he underwent treatment for a blood clot in the lung-not quite two months after his humiliating resignation. Now she shared his exile, a bitter reward for a life of self-effacing, tireless and often joyless devotion to the relentless demands of a unique political career...
...Baath Party's rule has reduced the legendary thousand-and-one nights capital of Haroun-al-Rashid to "a joyless city where laughter is alien and diplomats politely suspend dinner conversations when a waiter hovers within earshot," reported TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott after a visit last week. The city (pop. 2,100,000) is a dusty, sunbaked mélange of blue-domed mosques, dun-colored buildings and massive office complexes housing a growing government bureaucracy. Traffic jams are frequent as British-built double-decker buses, government Chevrolets and even donkeys all maneuver for the five bridges that span...
...picked its bones clean in The Human Zoo. He burped. He sniffed the air. He sighted, just upwind, a shaggy touch-me-feel-me shambling along. He struck again. This latest book results - but it is a joyless killing...