Word: joyful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wore his accomplishments with joy rather than with pride," Fletcher said...
Rich discovered Broadway young, wearing out the sound tracks of South Pacific and The Pajama Game on the hi-fi with his parents: "The music, our shared affection for it, became a private language of the afternoon, a whole vocabulary of joy." But when Rich was seven, his parents split up, a stigmatizing act in 1950s suburban Washington, D.C. His mother was remarried, to a volatile lawyer who beat Rich and broke her down into sad resignation. As he sought the escape of the theater, Rich's love of the stage flowered--abetted, ironically, by his stepfather, who subsidized...
...audiences into uncomfortable situations with no one-liners to save them, as when Titus has an AIDS scare and confronts the psychological legacy of his dad's own skirt-chasing. Like "All in the Family," its model, "Titus" daringly snatches comedy from the jaws of family drama. "The joy we get," Titus says, "is to scare the hell out of viewers and get us all laughing...
...them have people's names in the title; for Williams, making connections and spreading good karma is clearly as primal an urge as making music, and is actually undistinguishable therefrom. One of the album's major achievements is that it's able to dispense unrelenting good vibes ("hopeful joy is joy for all," she sings at one point) without becoming unbearably cloying, and Williams' well-publicized struggle with multiple sclerosis makes this generosity of spirit all the more admirable...
...have a natural affinity for music. Just take a group of toddlers and put on some light, happy music. It's a beautiful sight. Two-year olds will get up and start moving this way and that, and you'll likely hear peals of laughter or those sounds of joy that toddlers can only make...