Word: joyful
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...Cozy Circle signaled the start of the holidays and the end of yet another exciting year for the Hearthstone family. And what a year it has been! Despite all the war and strife plaguing the world today, our family has remained steadfast as we spread our "contagious joy of life" – an expression that I know many of you often like to use to describe...
...book is magnificent for its graceful, waltzing prose, its palimpsestic plot, and its egotistic but endearingly pathetic characters. And for affluent Ivy-League sophisticates, Messud’s novel can be a masochistic joy, holding the mirror up to our sometimes vain, vapid, inchoately ambitious selves...
...like the "wave." Then there are all the festivities that have emerged spontaneously: the Burning Man Festival, the Berlin Love Parade and Halloween as an occasion for grownup revelry. We seem to be impelled, almost instinctively and even in the absence of surviving traditions, to create occasions for communal joy...
...needy, and let the pine trees live. Instead, rent the local V.F.W. hall or a hotel ballroom, deck it with boughs of holly, and invite the entire town for a vast blowout. O.K., it won't bring world peace. But if we have this primordial capacity for collective joy...
Ehrenreich is an essayist and the author of the forthcoming book Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy...