Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to the Scriptures, Christ said to the woman taken in adultery. "Go, and sin no more." Would he, speaking in today's clichés, say something like this: "As to your extramarital affair: Was it self-liberating, other-enriching, life-serving, creative, integrative and joyous? If so, then it was morally acceptable. Go now, and have a good...
...soldiers led the four captured Moluccans from the building and forced them to lie down for a body search. At 6 o'clock the villagers saw teachers waving from an ambulance bus. Realizing that the four schoolteacher hostages were safe, the villagers suddenly began throwing paper streamers in joyous relief...
...says, Christians should decide for themselves whether specific situations are "conducive to creative growth and integration of the human person." To be moral, the committee argues, sex ought to follow seven basic "guidelines." It should be "self-liberating, other-enriching, honest, faithful, socially responsible, life-serving and joyous." How these terms are to be applied may be open to debate...
...word of joyous warning. In Happy End, Brecht has dropped agitprop. The show has no redeeming social value save delight...
...published in 1946 by the Austrian scholar Otto Erich Deutsch. Compared with the 1,500 letters of Beethoven that still exist, the Schubert documentation is woefully small. Use of the songs to fill in some of the "psychological gaps" is a potentially dangerous technique. Mozart, for example, produced joyous music in desperate circumstances. With Schubert, however, it seems an acceptable approach. Aside from his school teaching and boozy sessions in various Viennese inns, the composer had almost no life at all apart from his music. "He needed to imagine what he could not experience," says Fischer-Dieskau. "That...