Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is little joy in the reported conclusion of the Leontief study [Oct. 25] that "world resources can support a growing population well into the 21st century." This hardly alters the situation perceived by both the doomsayers and the realists-that we are in trouble. I am not optimistic that the "extra" 50 or 75 years will be time enough...
Sullivan scored a 31-yard over-the-shoulder touchdown in the fourth quarter to blow the game wide open. The touchdown cast Crimson visions of perfection off into the snowbanks that lined the field. It transformed Eli joy into ecstasy...
...Zeus sent down sorrow as well as joy to the Crimson team that afternoon, as the same rain that blessed the Radcliffe win also fell on top gun Eleanor Apthorp, who was absent from the meet, with a severe case of the flu that kept her bedridden for the rest of the season. Briefly, the day symbolized the frustrating and rather shaky beginnings of Radcliffe's first cross-country season...
...more "relevance" in course work, an increase in minority student admissions to mitigate the loneliness and alienation, for law schools to take more public and publicized stands on civil rights and other social issues. As they began to voice their own confusion, it was almost as if the joy of that step--that one true step--was too enormous to keep to themselves. Their demands often sounded to the keen ear like urgent pleas to share their newly discovered needs--those needs which, if fulfilled, could open the path to real self-discovery. It is this edge of minority student...
...book has the same size, feel and illustrated mini-encyclopedia format as the author's last two manuals, The Joy of Sex and More Joy of Sex. But this time British Author Alex Comfort, 56, is trying for a pop bestseller on old age, not sexual hydraulics. A Good Age (Crown; $9.95) is Comfort's attack on "agism"-prejudice against the elderly, which he considers society's most stupid bias. After all, the elderly are the only outcast group that everyone eventually expects to join. "I wonder," says Comfort, "what Archie Bunker would say about Puerto Ricans...