Word: joyouse
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...reporter caught me while I was sitting in the sanctuary of First Presbyterian Church awaiting the joyous and celebratory graduation services of my daughter's grade school. "What do you feel about the verdicts?" Since I had met with Ken Lay in August 2001 to warn him of Enron's shady accounting and Lay for the most part ignored my warnings, the reporter wanted to know, "Do you feel vindicated?" My mood did not remain joyous or celebratory. I stammered something about being satisfied that justice prevailed. What I couldn't convey in words is a sense of sadness, sadness...
...taste of a particularly pungent garlic sauce can evoke similar remembrances. What makes New Orleans eating so joyous is not just classic restaurants like Antoine's or Commander's Palace. It's the neighborhood places like those just up Napoleon from Tipitina's: the pan-roasted oysters at Manale's and the fried ones at Casamento's, nestled between a costume store and a building-ornament supply shop...
...that the locals have learned to live with it. "Maoists are just people like everyone else," Hada says. "Most of them are poor farmers. Now that there's going to be a new constitution, they might join the system too." If they don't, that system, and the current joyous mood, may not last too long...
...personal circumstances is not a surefire route to happiness; living the good life—the tripped-out-on-antidepressants life, that is—may not get you far. Quite the opposite, it may be happiness that brings dissatisfaction. There is no allure in those preppy, joyous smile-alots that roam the cobblestones of Cambridge. They have no secrets, and their opinions are generally uninteresting. The Harvard community should let its members be real—Harvard is a hard place, and Harvard students want to do well. If that means a higher percentage of anxious twenty-somethings flapping...
...winner for Best Picture-which had at first been thought to be a lock, then a tight squeeze, for Brokeback. ?And the Oscar goes to... Crash.? Those famous eyebrows editorialized surprise, and Nicholson mouthed a ?Whoa.? Paul Haggis, the film?s writer-producer-director, geysered from his seat in joyous shock, and revelry exploded among what seemed like half of the 5,000 audience members at the Kodak Theater. One of the revelers did such ecstatic contortions, she nearly fell out of her gown. The rest hugged one another like brand-new Super Bowl champs...