Word: joying
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...secular West no longer thinks in those terms. But radical Islam does. Which is why the Osama tape, reveling in the success of Sept. 11, is such an orgy of religious triumphalism: so many dead, so much fame, so much joy, so many new recruits--God is great...
...same token, with the total collapse of the Taliban, everything has changed. Omar has lost his robe. The Arab street is silent. The joy is gone. And recruitment? The Pakistani mullahs who after Sept. 11 had urged hapless young men to join the Taliban in fighting America and now have to answer to bereaved parents are facing ostracism and disgrace. Al-Qaeda agents roaming the madrasahs of Pakistan and the poorer neighborhoods of the Arab world will have a much harder sell. The syllogism of invincibility that sustained Islamic fanaticism is shattered...
...painter: tough, contemplative, highly sensitive to color and gifted in the organization of forms. Sometimes his pictures are a little pedantic: he goes at his shapes with the stolid determination of a silkworm chewing its way across a mulberry leaf. But the best of them are filled with a joy in life that Seurat, a curiously melancholy artist some of the time, couldn't top. Signac makes you feel--really feel, not just think--what it can be like to be in a world ruled by the pleasure of color and by the calm reflection that is, so to speak...
...holiday season, a time when columns of this nature often degenerate into cheesy, insufferable, sports-themed parodies. You know the sort of thing I’m referring to here. “’Twas the night before Christmas / And all through the place / The joy had all drained / From Jordan’s fat face.” Then, you’ve got your wish list-themed columns. “Oh, and for Christmas this year, let’s get Memphis Grizzlies forward Pau Gasol a letter...
...Part of the joy of coming back to Harvard is getting to work with people like that again,” Hyman said...