Word: joyful
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...Label) 3 of 5 Stars On the heels of their sold-out US concert tour, Editors (no article, oh-so-clever) have finally released their first CD, “The Back Room,” in the States, after several months of growing popularity in the United Kingdom. Joy Division comparisons are already tiresome—it seems that every melancholy vocalist in a post-punk band is compared to the late Ian Curtis—but inevitable with Editors, whose debut offers an uneven retread of the sound, style and lyrics of their legendary Manchester-based predecessors. When...
...having introduced generations of fans to the joy of the classic American songbook, the current 12-member iteration will celebrate the group’s sixtieth anniversary. This gala concert promises to feature the Kroks’ typically ebullient performance on the hallowed Sanders stage...
...members of the Harvard men’s basketball team were watching the game on Saturday afternoon and had seen the joy of Albany, they probably couldn’t have helped but feel a twinge of regret...
Dancing, playing, singing, and a little bit of self-deprecation (or cultural analysis, depending on how you look at it) marked Ghungroo 2006: A Cultural Celebration, which brought all of its color and joy to the Agassiz Theatre during its Mar. 2-4 run. Although it would be too much to say that the show went off without a hitch—problems of the technical variety, unfortunately, were plentiful—the 17th annual celebration of South Asian culture, produced by Alka R. Tandon ’07 and Arjun Vasan ’07 and directed by Saikat...
...Indian lunar landing.) There's a handy Hindu concept to explain these paradoxes. Maya means wonder, as in Mayanagri (city of dreams), the Hindi nickname for Bombay. It also denotes a willful fantasy - of the kind, for example, that would have a U.S. President last week expressing his "joy" at seeing the new India while in Delhi, a city only half-supplied with sewers. Gandhi was once asked what he thought of Western civilization. "That would be a good idea," he replied. So would an India in which economic development benefited all. Those who see a nation that has already...