Word: joyous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginning to attract a new following. This postwar generation could treat a machine with easy familiarity. Claes Oldenburg's liquidly drooping Giant Soft Fan is, among other things, a gently nostalgic evocation of times past -since, after all, air conditioning is more common nowadays. Jean Tinguely's joyous black Rotozaza, No. 1 tosses out colored balls and then sucks them back in again, a mystifying process intended as a sardonic parody of the production-consumption cycle. Baldaccini Cesar took his revenge on a high-powered yellow Buick by crushing it into a monolithic, totally stationary monument with...
...despite these loopholes (no doubt to be remedied during the Boston run), Zorba stands as a nearly finished product. Prince has woven just about all of the show's components into his unifying conception. Ronald Field's joyous choreography is so tightly linked to the staging, that it's hard to believe Prince did not devise the dances himself. Don Walker's orchestrations, a precise blend of Greek and Broadway instrumentation, flood the theatre with frenzies of rhythm, adding as much to the atmosphere as Boris Aronson's simplistically beautiful sets...
BRIAN EPSTEIN may have put the Beatles in suits, but their sound and their hair was still their own, and so was their stage presence, their "larking about." And it communicated something many of us hadn't tasted before, something wild, exuberant, playful, young, funny, and joyous...
...Beatles, the beat, were the agony by which an entire generation was to be turned on to the energy of their bodies, the energy of their long repressed desires and fantasies. The Beatles were a catalvst that released a tremendous amount of wild exuberant joyous energy. The young girls that dreamed about them learned something about themselves. But there had always been teen idols. Far more important was the sheer joy their music and their larking about communicated to anyone who would listen and watch. That energy, that joy was in all of us. And all it took...
...While Longer. Meanwhile, the drab sameness of Communist conformity once more settled over the country and stifled its spirit. Ordinary Czechoslovaks seemed cowed and de pressed. Press, newspaper, radio and television spewed forth daily drivel about happy factory workers, joyous farmers and the blessings of Marxism. They could do little else. Under the censorship rules, the press is forbidden to mention that Czechoslovaks were killed and wounded by the invading armies. It is also forbidden to talk about the damage that trigger-happy Soviet soldiers and their tanks inflicted on Czechoslovak buildings and autos. Above all, there must...