Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Christian" [April 12]. Why is it that so many so-called secular powers can express so beautifully truths that the church so often deadens or categorizes into meaninglessness? To me it shows both the sad fact that the church often fails to see how big God is and the joyous truth that God really does work in all people...
...fans the winter just past was less joyous than it rightfully should have been. At first the rubbery chicken and mashed peas of the banquet circuit tasted like squab and asparagus hollandaise, but Jim Lonborg's skiing injury and Tony Conigliaro's non-recovery from last year's beaning ruined the flavor...
...students had to go through the gradual reconciliation this girl did. For some the return was swift and joyous. One boy said, "I walked up the steps to my room and pushed open the door. All my roommates were there slapping me on the back and saying, 'Hey, man.' Right then all the old ghosts were swept away. Before, the people I had known in high school were much realer to me than my college friends. But from then on, the characters in my dreams were the same people I saw walking around in the daytime...
...dead-as-the-dodo musicals. Weary of adulation, a famous painter assumes his deceased valet's identity and achieves happiness with a pneumatic widow. As the painter, Vincent Price acts like a berserk semaphore and sings in a mauve whisper. As the widow, Patricia Routledge performs with a joyous professional authority lacking in the score and the show...
Still, in every caricature, there was always some saddening or joyous truth, just as in Wolfe himself; when he could shake whatever demon was riding him, there was a quota of humor, fundamental decency and kindness. Moreover, he packed a mighty literary ambition. He made it plain that he was out to lasso and pin down the Great American Novel. He wanted to force the whole torrent of the U.S. experience between covers, from mean Brooklyn alleys to the lush farms of the heartland, from city slickers to wary countrymen-and for good measure he meant to throw in mountains...