Word: glees
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...successful career as a scholar, teacher and author. But the early slights -- her father's callousness and failure to confide in her -- still rankle, and she is zestfully candid about her resentments. "Yippee!" she exults when a parental lie comes to light, or "Gotcha!" Yet this glee is tempered by a deep sympathy with the narrow possibilities of her father's life and indeed with any form of struggle and suffering that people must endure...
...page papers and a thesis and an oral presentation and five exams and Glee Club rehearsal every damn...
With its combination of musical whimsy and homicidal lyrical glee, Tokyo Rose becomes an unlikely, indeed unwitting, rejoinder to The Japan That Can Say No, the Japanese best seller written by Sony's chairman, Akio Morita, and Shintaro Ishihara that has stirred such debate with its pointed challenges to America. Tokyo Rose is, in fact, an improvement on it. You can dance to Parks if you have some appropriately eccentric moves. And while he's riling you, he can always make you smile...