Word: joyful
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...whatever you think of Manning, I would argue that it's best to root against him in the Super Bowl. Yes, even among his fans. It's Manning's quest for that one missing part, that one imperfection, that will sustain our attention. "From a fan's perspective, the joy is in the conversation," says sports sociologist Jay Coakley, professor emeritus at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. "Peyton's longing for a Super Bowl keeps the conversation going, and if he wins, that conversation stops." In an age of sports parity, in which seven teams have won World...
...among a group of people in response to capricious circumstance. I also thought it a pitch-perfect description of this man's cancer-a source of misery, without question, but one that drew many people together, if even for an instant, and managed to produce a few moments of joy...
...Christie's December auction of the Givenchy "little black dress" that Hepburn wore as Holly Golightly in "Breakfast at Tiffany's". It sold for more than $900,000, the highest price ever for a movie costume. (Proceeds to the City of Joy charity for poor children in India. "There are tears in my eyes," said Dominic Lapierre, founder of the charity. "I am absolutely dumbfounded to believe that a piece of cloth which belonged to such a magical actress will now enable me to buy bricks and cement to put the most destitute children in the world into schools...
...from a stroke or about the possibility of fixing the pathological wiring that underlies psychiatric diseases. And it implied that other brain-based fixities, such as the happiness set point that, according to a growing body of research, a person returns to after the deepest tragedy or the greatest joy, are nearly unalterable...
...mom’s motives, and those of Josh Smith’s parents, are fairly easy to understand. With their pride and joy off at Harvard, that ivy-encrusted boot camp for America’s liberal elite, the least they can possibly do is try to get a word in edgewise. It’s a political umbilical cord that connects to a totally different universe, and growing up being the way it is, it’s hard not to be a little peeved at the insistence with which the unwelcome manifestos keep on coming...