Word: joyousness
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Pastan's poems take the other exit, searching for hope and continuity among the remnants of more joyous times. She seeks strength in the multitude of roles a person plays as social relationships grow more complex, and her poems find solace for most woes in mathematics, astronomy, gynecology, and other surprising images...
Felipe! Felipe!" came the joyous chants from 10,000 supporters who had gathered at the soccer stadium in the industrial city of Valladolid for the campaign rally. As the candidate with the flashing smile and thick black hair took the stage, the crowd clapped and cheered its approval. "After 150 years of govern-ment by the right, we must try to put this country on the march," he declared, stabbing the air in a gesture of challenge. "And that can only be done by the Socialist Party...
Author-Editor-Raconteur-Gadfly William F. Buckley Jr. has already delighted friends and charmed critics with his account of a joyous transatlantic sail in Airborne (1976). So why, five years later, is Buckley charting the same course? Because, as he explains, "the wedding night is never enough." Or, to put it less metaphorically, the first trip and book were so successful that Buckley could not resist the temptation to set sail all over again...
...addition to recreating Motown fervor. Dancin' in the Street! supplements it. Comments by the dancers like "I ain't goin' nowhere!" and "Oh my goodness. I can't stand it no more" verbalize the sentiments of all who have suppressed joyous emotions when hearing Diana Ross and Smokey Robinson grab for our hearts through...woofers and tweeters. The "My Guy/My Girl" duet performed by Edna Davis and Lewis Robinson similarly brings to fruition a fantasy: the blending of the two songs which epitomize utter faithfulness...
...infectious, high-spirited laudation set to Hebrew psalms, which begins with the sound of two hands clapping and ends in a full-throated blaze of hallelujahs. For both Reich and the style of which he is a leading representative, the concert will be a cause of celebration. Minimalism, a joyous, exciting-and sometimes maddening-amalgam of influences as disparate as African drumming, the Balinese gamelan and new wave rock, has come uptown at last...