Word: joyousness
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...spirit of the earliest Commencement days, as of the early College, was largely chaperoned by theology--the presence of a formidable portion of the local clergy caused those first occasions to be rather pious and somber. But the joyous aspects of graduation increased steadily and by the end of the seventeenth century, commencement had become the main spectacle of New England...
...German allies to be made of sackcloth. Erhard may be an honored guest in the U.S., as he is this week; the British may graciously send their Queen to visit, or the French artfully try to woo Bonn away from the American alliance-but the Germans still feel unloved. "Joyous bonfires burn in the night sky all around Germany as her former enemies celebrate their victory of 20 years ago," noted Theologian Helmut Thielicke during last month's V-E day commemorations. "But we are still pushed away from the light of the bonfires and deep into the disgrace...
...football team. He does not understand the game; it is enough that the Lions' miserable performance provides a stern test of his elected involvement in life. After the Lions lose the big one to Princeton, he can think of no more fitting show of unimpaired allegiance than a joyous death leap into the Hudson River, crying against the night "We number one in the Ivory Leak...
...device that knits the evening together is that dramatic vice, a narrator, whose luckless duty is to tell the playgoer why, for the moment at least, there is no play going on. When the actors take over, War and Peace springs to life-life with all its joyous, grievous and profound trivia, its indestructible reality. Children are born, men and women marry or do not marry, father fights with son and son with father, the old die. Peace is love, war is evil. In war, the young die, husband is torn from wife, the round of daily life is violated...
...Marcel Marceau has proved, a brilliant mime can reveal wistful, grief-stricken and joyous states of human feeling. But after an evening of planned misery with the Polish Mime Theater, one merely wonders if Communism can really be all that...