Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crying when all the wishes don't come true?" Springsteen must have intended for the listener to sense a deep, realistic optimism at the core of Springsteen's famous hard-luck pessimism: instead, he sounds like a musical Danielle Steele, chronicling the middle-age discovery of true joy in a tainted world: "Happy/With you in my arms/Happy/With you in my heart." It is not that contemporary music requires intelligent lyrics to be successful, but if the lyrics go unaccompanied by powerful music, they might at least avoid offending the listener...
...Tears of joy welled up in my eyes when I put my hands into the dough. Turning off the hand mixer (whose rhythmic humming had me giddy to begin with), I stuck my hands in, partially to push the dough down the sides but mostly to become a part of the mixture, an ecstatic symphony of touch, sight, smell and presumed taste. Raspberry squares were...
...varies the notion of family lineage in From Generation to Generation through a series. An elder from the village of Vilna, gazes upon versions of himself, his body decreasing in size, each time preserving his old age. The ancestors bless their descendents but stare toward the earth, without joy or life. It is as if these men have always been old, but one cannot tell which man is the oldest. Each generation, now with the knowledge of the atrocities of the Holocaust, will continue to age with experience and the memory of an inexplicably violent set of moments in history...
...with joy that we watched as Harvard honored President Nelson Mandela and the new democratic regime elected by all the people of South Africa. Our joy is for the South African people who have removed their oppressors from power, dismantled apartheid and begun rebuilding their country without violence in the spirit of truth and reconciliation...
...really want to know about someone's thesis--if you are really into sharing someone's joy and pain, ask to read it when it's done. We will be grateful for your attention then. After all, we will have a lot of proofreading to do before we hand it in. Nancy Milagros Trasande' 99 is a literature concentrator in Cabot House. She expects to deliver on March...