Word: joyful
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...People see a national park and say 'Oh, this is protected.' Well, not completely," says Joy Oakes, senior Mid-Atlantic regional director for The National Parks Conservation Association, "because within those boundaries are holes... and all it takes is one bad development, or one perfectly good development in the wrong place, to have an enormous impact...
...anarchy which these terms imply immediately capture the anemic imaginations of minds exchanging ruts. IT to the audience (white collar San Francisco waiting in the Black Cat until girls go wild with wee hour jazz) is like slumming—the very method implies a kind of sacrilegious joy. IT to the Beat poets is a serious end, implying more than a playboy party—“freedom,” “escape...
...does it? Whatever financial benefit you might derive from such a deal, the real joy from the dinner will be very low because each bite you take reminds you how much you are spending. This might be a good dieting approach, but not a way to enjoy spending your money. What this idea shows is that the way you pay has important psychological implications on how you view the money you are spending—what we call the “pain of paying”—even though on a rational level, we all know that...
...graduation day, one is reluctant to remember crying over a poor Expository Writing grade or the emotional crisis of the first month of freshman year. Yet, without these moments, I would not be so proud of where I am today. I would not have felt as much joy in my grade on the next paper. I would not be so proud of the many things that I have accomplished here. They may not be a laundry list of awards, but these successes are things that I have worked for—achievements with efforts and stories behind them...
KIDS AT PLAY It's not easy living in New York City when you're young and beautiful and so are all your friends. Don't believe it? Neither does Ryan McGinley, which is why his work is such an edgy and innocent joy...