Word: joyful
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...Carnegie Hall. It was an amazing sound. A high point for me was doing the Freedom Concert in East Berlin, when we did Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on Christmas morning in 1989. The wall was coming down, and Leonard Bernstein changed the German text in the Ode to Joy from "joy" to "freedom." It was a very moving experience. You heard hammers and pickaxes from the concert hall...
...pure drudgery - like prepping a "literal ton of corned-beef briskets" at an Irish pub the week before St. Patrick's Day - but when the orders start pouring in, the pace and chaos and heat in even a low-end kitchen somehow fuse into a kind of mass lunatic joy. "I am God of the box," he writes, "the brain-damaged Lord Commander of a kingdom of fifty feet by five and made entirely of stainless steel, industrial tile, knives, sweat and fire...
...Here we are at the deathbed of General Motors. The company's body not yet cold, and I find myself filled with--dare I say it--joy.' MICHAEL MOORE, Michigan native and director of the 1989 anti-GM documentary Roger & Me, after the automaker filed for bankruptcy on June...
...quite a match. I had nothing but joy for Roger. He's a great individual. But most of all, he's an enjoyable player to watch...
...resuming her duties as a preceptor in expository writing. “I love to be intellectually challenged and to figure out the way this world works,” Constantino said. “I strive to keep things balanced, not take myself too seriously, and to find joy in the steps toward my goals.” —Staff writer Bita M. Assad can be reached at bassad@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Esther I. Yi can be reached at estheryi@fas.harvard.edu...