Word: joyful
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...what it is supposed to defend. The language of environmentalism today is often clinical, sterile, and couched in terms of ethical prerogatives against which people either rebel or shoulder with the sense of assuming a heavy burden. Preserving the natural beauty around us, however, should inspire not reluctance, but joy; while retaining the urgency of messages for planetary conservation, we should also impart a sense of the wonders we risk losing. Essential to this approach is a renewed emphasis on nature writing that can bring to bear both the beauty and the transience of our surroundings...
ROSIE O'DONNELL ceases blogging, says, "It wasn't providing the joy it used to." We know, Rosie, we know...
Oliver Stone, who is my friend, told me how important the music of Motown had been to the troops and how they would be in the ditches and foxholes and bivouacs and their joy was to be dancing and singing Motown music. That is so wonderful to me. It's a great honor to think that those guys were comforted by my music...
What brought them to Washington, on flights that turned into airborne pep rallies, on buses that left at midnight, on foot from the four corners of a city on lockdown? "The cataclysm of joy," said the bohemian from Brooklyn, N.Y. A chance to throw a shoe at President Bush, said the disenchanted Republican. To celebrate the fact that anything is possible, said the Apache from Arizona. Some people brought with them mementos of those who could not come. Jenny Allen, a 38-year-old fundraiser from West Virginia, wore a laminated picture of her great-aunt, an elegant lady...
Matsumoto conceived the paper to investigate one of the oldest dilemmas in the study of physiology. We have known for many years that people all over the world, even those from remote cultures, use the same facial expressions to convey basic emotions like grief or joy. Charles Darwin noted this phenomenon in the 19th century, and Matsumoto's mentor, a famous psychologist named Paul Ekman who traveled the globe in the 1960s, proved that both isolated tribesmen and urban Westerners identified pictures of facial expressions in the same way. Ekman demonstrated that a frown means unhappiness the world over; wide...