Word: happier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bourbeau, the Crimson's second leading scorer last season, couldn't be happier about being a member of the squad...
...keeping the past at bay." She cannot quite manage this, since she is afflicted with "a brain greedy for news nobody could live with in a world happy to provide it." The arrival of Paul D brings reminders of the life she fled, but it also seems to promise happier times ahead; he frightens the noisy, disembodied specter off the premises and moves in. But soon Sethe must take in another, more upsetting guest, a young woman who materializes one afternoon in the yard and who calls herself Beloved. It is the name Sethe gave years ago to the daughter...
...even the odd businessman. Said one Wall Street investment banker who went to Sagaponack: "I never thought I'd get involved in this sort of thing. It's easy to pass off the group as certifiable, but the more people who are continuously working on overcoming conflict, the happier...
...athletes from 70 countries were running and jumping and laughing from the sheer joy of it all. No, these were not the Pan American Games, which were to start a few days later, downstate at Indianapolis. The competitors there, everyone knew, would run faster and jump higher. But not happier; world happiness records were being set here at the Seventh International Summer Special Olympics...
Like most subjects of biographies, Parker would be considerably less interesting if she had led a happier life. The woman who had everything -- appeal, style, brains, celebrity and that deadly wit -- also drank to excess for decades, repeatedly attempted suicide, spent her declining years in the noisome atmosphere generated by adamantly unhousebroken dogs, and was cremated in a party dress Gloria Vanderbilt had given her as an act of charity. Leslie Frewin's The Late Mrs. Dorothy Parker revisits this pith and pathos more grandiloquently but less methodically than John Keats' 1970 volume You Might As Well Live, on which...