Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could easily resist this suggestion; yet, when I progressively "let go" of them, my hands did indeed become light and buoyant. At Dr. Houston's suggestion, I began "flying." Not literally, of course, but never except in dreams have I felt so ecstatically the sensation of flight-free, joyous, yet peaceful, ever deeper to the center of my being, until I was conscious of an indescribable unity within myself and with all things. Finally, I felt as if I had flown to the core of life itself...
...exhausted and half-leveled Continent of Europe declared an end to World War II. It was V-E day, the moment of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender to the Allied forces of the U.S., Britain and the Soviet Union. In retrospect, May 8, 1945, was not the joyous release from conflict that it seemed to anyone who still remembers that bright spring day. Within a few short years, a cold war would descend on the Continent, turning it into a zone of seem ingly permanent confrontation. Last week the nations that battled for the soil of Europe were marking...
Linked with it was a participation program for Pittsburgh's schools, whose students made hundreds of what Piene calls "wind things"-inflatables, banners, kites. Then they were all flown over the East Liberty Mall. "It was so joyous," said Piene happily...
...differences, however, are greater than the similarities. The Play of Daniel is an anonymous creation, with roots in folksong and in ecclesiastical chant. It is alternately solemn and joyous, with a directness that is rare in music of any period. The format of the work is more formal than the kind of drama which we are accustomed to. Daniel is a simple re-telling of the Biblical narrative, and there is no more concern for unity of time and place or for psychological realism than in the original tale. The verses of the text are set to unchangingly strophic music...
...happening all over again. Woodstock, last summer's "three days of love and peace," has been re-created in a joyous, volcanic new film that will make those who missed the festival feel as if they were there. Those who actually were there will see it even more intimately. But Woodstock is far more than a sound-and-light souvenir of a long weekend concert. Purely as a piece of cinema, it is one of the finest documentaries ever made...