Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cloak fell to his knees at the foot of the airplane ramp and kissed the concrete. With that dramatic gesture, Paul VI last week became the first Pope to set foot in South America, the only predominantly Roman Catholic continent. The Pope's journey was not an entirely joyous one. Though he received a warm and at times tumultuous welcome, the cause of his trip was a crisis. His central purpose was to try to prevent a disastrous worsening of the division in the Latin American church-a schism between entrenched reactionaries and radical clerics advocating social and political...
...Mode. At 28, Reed is both the most entertaining new journalist in America since Tom Wolfe and the most unprincipled knave to turn name dropping and voyeurism into a joyous, journalistic living. His detractors appear to be in the minority, however, and to the 30,000 readers who have thus far bought his recent book, Do You Sleep in the Nude?, he is a fascinating gossip who has recast the interview format in his own bitchy image. Son of a Texas oil-company supervisor, Reed spent his formative years in the South traveling from oil boom to oil boom...
...soon our own land, with joyous tumult...
...This joyous fellow feeling does come about, it comes in a flash, a feeling of unity not just with flowers and trees and animals (that's easy to achieve) but with other self-sustaining human egos as well...
SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM, by Joan Didion. Twenty essays by a gifted writer who transforms even the most joyous of people and places (hippies, Haight-Ashbury) into her own melancholy image...