Word: joyfully
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...obscure Dutch cultural critic named Constant Nieuwenhuys predicted that someday we would all become architects. Stuck in a world where everything looked the same, he suggested, we would be so alienated from our environment by technology that we would constantly redesign the space around us just to recover the joy of living...
...century, powered by the longest economic boom in U.S. history, wired to the Web and to one another, thirstily consuming new technology even before we know how to use it. In the frenzy of perpetual motion we want to re-create the space around us, not as our only joy but because we can, and because that way it's our space. We're snapping up translucent blueberry-tinted computers, bubbled cars and little chrome cell phones as fast as they can be produced. We're fully employed, and we want something to show for it, even...
...just can't help herself--you name it, she's applied. My roommate sent her, as a joke, an "application" to one of our parties this year. Essay question number two: "We relish the exclusion of less worthy individuals. Please explain why we should forfeit the small portion of joy we would obtain in excluding you from our festivities...
Harvard has not felt the joy of beating Dartmouth since it smeared the Big Green, 7-1, in last year's conference semifinal...
...sane it is," says Vowell, who adds, however, that reading the 884-page manual had her "completely, overly aware of the state of my bathroom." Vowell comes to a commonsensical compromise: "I like sad stories and tough topics, but I want my living quarters to show some sense of joy." Vowell's own book, Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World, will be out in April...