Word: joyful
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...about the hypocrisy of corporate America was cool in a junior high sort of way, and now he’s a part of the Cruise/Travolta club, but who am I to deprive him of his happiness? He did what he did because he wanted to find peace and joy, and if he’s making money, isn’t it a bit moronic to whine about how much cooler it (or I) was when I was the only one on the block who knew about...
...night of May 20, 1905, Benjamin Joy, class of 1905, a popular senior from a prestigious New York family, was caught stealing a 200-pound bronze plaque from Phillips Brooks House. Joy confessed his involvement with the Med. Fac. society, and headlines about the secret society raged across Boston newspapers...
...some of the best in the college,” said then Dean Byron S. Hurlbut, class of 1889. Several members of the Harvard administration were even rumored to be Med. Fac. men themselves. So Hurlbut struck a delicate bargain with the club: he would grant amnesty to Joy and his Med. Fac. compatriots—if they would agree to abandon the club forever...
...praised Hagler--"The man showed his greatness"--and held out hope for himself at 26. "This is not the end for me. I'm a winner." In a glut of divisions, he yet holds a superwelterweight title--"nothing to cry over," as Hagler said, though not much occasion for joy. The contemporary champions introduced before the fight heard fewer cheers of recognition than the ancients, and all of their ovations were drowned out by the longing affection for Muhammad Ali, moon-faced and subdued. "Great fight," he murmured later, "like Joe Frazier...
...particularly enjoyed this issue because you reported the immigrants' failures as well as their triumphs. Henry Grunwald's touching Essay told everything that I have felt and experienced since my family and I arrived here 15 years ago: the fear, the uncertainty, the pain and the joy. You made me feel proud of being an immigrant and an American. Paquita A. Chinga New York City...