Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kippur. Torahs and prayer books were ripped apart and riddled by bullets. But the Israelis had already installed a new set of Torahs and were distributing leaflets from the chief military rabbi instructing them that on Thursday's and Friday's holiday of Sukkoth-a normally joyous celebration of a bountiful harvest-the soldiers were to pray for the army...
LESS THAN one year ago the joyous shouts of "Four more years!" were permeating the air as the Nixon Youth celebrated its leader's victory. But the slogan which once rang with a nauseating finality for McGovern supporters and those disillusioned by both candidates now twists into irony, Nov. 7, 1972, was only a preliminary verdict, merely eliminating George McGovern and Sargent Shriver. The fates of Richard M. Nixon and Spiro T. Agnew, the Republican ticket of 1972, still await the decisions of courts in Maryland and Washington...
...Subject Was Roses. Frank D. Gilroy wrote this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of a young man returning from the war to a not so joyous homecoming. Jack Albertson won a Tony award for his role as the father who shares a new rapport with his returned son, played by Martin Sheen. Patricia Neal is the wife and mother who realizes the tragic and painful truths brought to the surface by her son's arrival. An excellent drama with its highly honored cast intact. Channel...
Fidel Castro is older now, and the euphoria of revolution dims before the ongoing tasks of socialist construction. But the romantic aspects of revolution live on, in Cuba perhaps more than elsewhere. The sense that revolution is joyous as well as arduous will never really die there...
Berryman's final book of poems, Delusions, etc. points to this funny twist of Irony in his Belief. The book is mainly a series of daily prayers, some overwhelmingly joyous, many serious addresses to God. Only a few of these last poems are sad. But then there is the title, and a picture of a smug Berryman staring out--is he laughing to himself or finally at ease...