Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then there are the festivals, especially Puerto Rican Day in June, when some 250,000 members of the community parade up Fifth Avenue and turn Central Park into a joyous 840-acre cookout. It is then that Puerto Rican exuberance blossoms. Hotels and nightclubs rock to the three-two rhythms of salsa. Hot dog vendors watch forlornly as their all-American offerings are spurned in favor of bacalaitos (codfish fritters), alcapurrias (plantain-meat rolls) and tostones (fried plantains). The community comes ablaze - forgetting for a while the gritty realities of its plight...
...major (Melos Quartet, Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich; Deutsche Grammophon). This is a near-perfect recording of Schubert's greatest chamber work. The playing and the balance between instruments are all but flaw less; Rostropovich's singing bass line is outstanding, and the gay third movement scherzo is joyous as a Highland fling...
...like Peckinpah to violent material. In Midnight Express one imagines the director peering through the viewfinder and murmuring, "Goyaesque," or worse, "Ken Russell." Anyway, the continual aestheticizing of squalor and of brutality, not to mention the poeticizing of prison homosexuality-a necessity perhaps for prisoners but not, surely, a joyous compensation for most of them-finally makes one very irritated indeed...
...will admit. Well outside the mainstream, the Cheever people nonetheless reflect it admirably. What they do with themselves is what millions upon millions would do, given enough money and time. And their creator is less interested in his characters as rounded individuals than in the awful, comic and occasionally joyous ways they bungle their opportunities...
There will be relatively modest economic growth-3.4% -next year, and probably a brief and shallow recession in 1980, hitting bottom that autumn. Though that is not a joyous prospect for Jimmy Carter, Greenspan is not prematurely celebrating any victories for his fellow Republicans. He figures that Democrats, moving with the tide of the people, have shifted fast to the right and co-opted the G.O.P.'s position. But the fellow who is sworn in as President on Jan. 20, 1981-Jimmy or Jerry or Teddy or somebody-will inherit an economy that, Greenspan feels, will rise with...