Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...announced the arrest of more than 30 white supremacists charged with 21 bombing deaths. Voting was extended to a fourth day in six rural areas, including the Zulu stronghold in Natal province. "It's like the birth of a baby," exulted Linda Khaba, a local magistrate. "Problems, anxiety and joy...
...speeches or press conferences but answering questions from "typical voters" and then carefully editing the results. If that was artificial, so in a way was the whole 1968 campaign. Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey dared not repudiate Johnson's doomed Vietnam policy and talked instead about "the politics of joy." Nixon, who had agreed with Johnson's escalation of the war and hoped to court segregationist votes in the South, spoke mainly in code words about "peace with honor" in Vietnam and "law and order" at home. In a year of assassinations and ghetto riots, Nixon sounded reassuring, or enough...
What did you think of The Joy Luck Club...
...speech. Coleman manages to portray a seven-year-old princess, promiscuous teenager, and troubled, jaded socialite all in succession. Occassionally, she borders on emotional excess; for example, the repeated emphasis on her despicable stepfather's name seems overdone and jarring. But overall, her charged voice effectively reveals the joy, pain, and depression that Melissa experiences...
...some scholars saw only his fascination with Italian commedia dell'arte buffoonery. The premier Marivaux exponent Stephen Wadsworth, who directed his translation of Triumph at Berkeley and is staging his text of Changes of Heart at McCarter, thinks any successful production mingles both flavors: "Marivaux's plays all combine joy and ebullience with a savagely acute perception of how people operate. He wants to leave you on the horns of a dilemma. You cannot simply like his characters for what they are or simply dislike them for what they...