Word: joyful
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...offer “a few observations” at the next session. The comment seemed ominous to some professors.But after the president concluded his speech—“I urge you to join together with purpose for the large task before you and wish you much joy and success in your pursuit”—the Faculty burst into extended applause. While some professors offered just a few short claps, one of the Faculty members who applauded longest was J. Lorand Matory ’82, the professor of anthropology and of African and African...
When Philip Batty first came to Papunya, he was met with an almost utopian vision. It was 1977, and Batty had come to work as an art teacher at the government settlement in Central Australia; to his joy, artists had taken over the town, some even gathering in his front yard to paint. "There were few places in Papunya that had front lawns and I inherited the policeman's house," recalls Batty, now senior curator for Central Australian Collections at Museum Victoria. "And people like Clifford Possum and Johnny Warangkula used to come around and paint." He was met with...
...that will bowl over any theater buffs, music lovers, or anyone who just likes to “kick off their Sunday shoes” and have a good time. Taking its professionalism and pushing it over the top of the scales with the obvious enthusiasm and joy of its performers, “Footloose” has deservedly snagged the rank of musical of the year.—Reviewer April B. Wang can be reached at abwang@fas.harvard.edu...
...living, until that which we know to be right, begins to feel suspect,” Bernard “Ed” Alton, author of the “Taskbook” admonishes. “In the end, we must pity them: we are going forward with joy and hope; they are being left behind, mired in fear...
...mother has often told me, there has been no greater joy in her life than motherhood. As far as she is concerned, the slogging associated with full-time mothering is more satisfying than the slogging associated with having a full-time job. She has given up some professional successes, perhaps, but had she worked full-time when her children were young, she believes, she would have missed...