Word: joyousness
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...sense of fun. I felt a kind of amused affection for him, like, 'Oh. Dick, come off it.'" However, Nixon really let go the night he learned he had won a scholarship to Duke Law School. "We had fun that night," Ola Florence says. "He was joyous, abandoned-the only time I remember him that...
There are also a number of disconcertin, sniggering (and sometimes sexist) jokes running throughout the film-such as a joyous intercourse scene in which Nicholson incongruously wears a T-shirt, only so that he can reveal the legend "Triumph" on its front once he has achieved orgasm...
...freezing point, yet notes that "serious drinkers prefer their soda pop cold in the mouth, but not ice cold." He advises devotees to avoid smoking while sampling, but admits that a mellow root beer enhances the flavor of a good cigar. "To see the delicacy of a light, joyous celery tonic smothered by a cloud of gray smoke," Shorris laments, "is depressing to even the most casual connoisseur...
...could easily resist this suggestion; yet, when I progressively "let go" of them, my hands did indeed become light and buoyant. At Dr. Houston's suggestion, I began "flying." Not literally, of course, but never except in dreams have I felt so ecstatically the sensation of flight-free, joyous, yet peaceful, ever deeper to the center of my being, until I was conscious of an indescribable unity within myself and with all things. Finally, I felt as if I had flown to the core of life itself...
...exhausted and half-leveled Continent of Europe declared an end to World War II. It was V-E day, the moment of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender to the Allied forces of the U.S., Britain and the Soviet Union. In retrospect, May 8, 1945, was not the joyous release from conflict that it seemed to anyone who still remembers that bright spring day. Within a few short years, a cold war would descend on the Continent, turning it into a zone of seem ingly permanent confrontation. Last week the nations that battled for the soil of Europe were marking...