Word: joyousness
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...Miller looms as a dangerous giant among today's thinkers and writers. There is a reckless disregard for convention in his philosophy of joyous living. The most caustic critic of our complex society, he is also a liberating and inspiring leader among modern philosophers...
...that same commitment. Its theme, familiar but here recharged with emotion, is the search of two people for an anodyne to loneliness. Created in a mood of sustained ebullience, it is his lightest, most accessible film, and one of the few movies in recent times that could be called joyous...
...send sparks up your spine with that incredible voice. For those spectacular talents, most of us would accept an amalgam of megalomania, immorality, the frizzles and flat feet; but happily we don't have to. To experience a Sills performance is to revel in her joyous nature, her exuberance, her graciousness and that leavening of mischief. Sills is summer ir full bloom...
...knows what would have become of her if her grandmother, surveying the Gothic shambles at Oak Terrace, had not shipped her off to an English boarding school in 1899. Miraculously, it was an enlightened place in which Eleanor blossomed. She excelled at studies, developed poise, and made the joyous discovery that the very traits that bored her family-candor, compassion, energy, an aversion to sham -could be highly valued...
Whenever The Dice Man lapses into missionary zealotry, prepare for rampant naiveté. Anarchy is not the joyous freedom that Rhinehart takes it to be, nor does the cure for civilization's discontents lie in an idolatry. However, the book could be a boon to games-minded hostesses. During a lull at the next party, try serving dice in the martinis...