Word: joyousness
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...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...
...welcoming crowds lining the streets and waving flags as the President goes by. And unlike in India, there won't even be protests. Bush will arrive in the dark of night, and all streets will be cleared before his passage. Even the spring festival of Basant, usually a joyous occasion celebrated with kite-fighting competitions, bright colors and traditional foods has been postponed until after President Bush leaves. That now seems very appropriate, since the bombing has only underscored how little there is to celebrate in the war on terror...
...good directorial gamble by the boys of Death Cab for Cutie. Well-known for selecting unheard-of directors, Ben Gibbard and company have struck gold with Norton, who manages to channel Nick Park (“Wallace & Gromit”) and Gustav Klimt at once. The result is both joyous and fragile, a montage of imagery and styles that suggest that everyone had some fun making the video. Striking me rather like what Paul Klee might have created, had he been commissioned to make a music video, the imagery is at once bright and maudlin, working with a juxtaposition Death...
...also makes it easy to develop emotional attachments with the students—who are alternately discouraged, distraught, and joyous, but always passionate—and with Pascal, who leads a hunger strike on Guantánamo and represents the other refugees in demanding respect and freedom...