Word: joviality
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...hear about the New Jersey garage owner known to his friends as the "jovial giant"? Seems he was shot to death in his driveway, allegedly by a former Scout leader who was having an affair with his wife. How about the middle-aged beautician in Florida who used to hang out at a bar called Madge's? Gave a ride to a drifter one night and wound up with her throat slashed and her body dumped by the railroad tracks. Then there's the Garden Grove, Calif., teenager convicted of shooting her stepmother to death. Now she claims...
...Monday morning death's wide swath had left the staff physically and emotionally exhausted. It was time for a tall, somewhat stout, white-haired woman to provide the reassurance of her presence: standing in a stairwell, in the path of grief-bruised nurses and doctors, greeting each with a jovial smile and concerned questions: "How was your weekend?" "Are you exhausted?" "Are you coping...
Agnes of God is a worthy and gripping play. It manages to be moving without being trite, witty without being overly jovial and intelligent without being intellectually oppressive. If occasionally it falters, it is through an excess of ambition rather than a lack of effort and skill. It is to be commended...
...with Cleary. After a victory, or even after a loss, Cleary is usually jovial. This year, Harvard dropped both of its Beanpot games. Cleary has become so accustomed to such a fate--Harvard has failed to win a first-round 'Pot game since 1981--that he turns his post-game press conference into a Greek tragicomedy, in which he plays Sisyphus...
President Chiang Ching-kuo of Taiwan was so unlike his famous father that he hardly resembled him at all. While Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was wiry, aloof and dictatorial, his son was rotund, jovial and pragmatic. The elder Chiang fielded armies against both the Japanese and Mao Zedong's Communists. The younger, though bearing the nominal rank of general, never saw action on the battlefield. Yet after the Nationalists fled the mainland, it was the son who helped transform the father's defeat into victory. Chiang Ching-kuo's inheritance was the loss of China; when he died last week...