Word: joyousness
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...Thompson's music, scored for a chamber orchestra, organ, chorus, and the figures of the Pageant, is unadorned, often almost spare, and calmly joyous. A bustlingly rustic fugue hurries the shepherds towards Bethlehem, where they celebrate the Nativity in an awkward but loving dance. Mary croons a soft lullaby, and Joseph sleeps contentedly by her side. Simeon prophesies the wonders of the Messiah's coming; a boys' choir sings an awestruck Noel, the chorus a mighty, antiphonal Alleluia...
Well, gang, it's the joyous Christmas season again (has been since the day after Halloween, according to the Coop) and you know what that means! Lotsa business for everybody...
Franny and Zooey, by J. D. Salinger. The author's first work in hard cover since Nine Stories (1953), a reprinting of two long New Yorker stories about the seven prodigious Glass siblings, is a joyous, balanced, masterly book, convoluted and mystical enough to fuel dormitory debates for several seasons...
Franny and Zooey, by J. D. Salinger. The author's first work in hard covers since Nine Stories (1953), a reprinting of two long New Yorker stories about the seven prodigious Glass siblings, is a joyous, balanced, masterly book, convoluted and mystical enough to fuel dormitory debates for several seasons...
Some readers also object to the book's italicized talkiness. But the talk, like the book itself, is dazzling, joyous and satisfying. Holden Caulfield was a gentle heart who lacked the strength to survive; Zooey and his sister in the end are harried but whole. Above all, by sheer force of eye and ear?rather than by psychologizing, which he detests?Salinger has given them, like Holden, an astonishing degree of life, a stunning and detailed air of presence. So real are the Glasses in fact (an American student in Venice remembers that some one called him excitedly from...