Word: joyousness
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...unique generation of men who have already worked six years at the job of European economic unity. They are the Eurocrats, those scarcely known bureaucrats and technicians who run the Common Market from the new headquarters on Brussels' aptly named (except for the British) Avenue of Joyous Entry. There are 2,450 Eurocrats-one-fourth of them translators who cope with the Brussels Babel of French, Dutch, Italian and German-and their aim is an overall European plan that will eventually govern production, wages and investment capital. In every idiom, they constantly repeat: "We are past the point...
More impressive still was the second song, a mournful dirge for a executed man later proved innocent. The transition from the joyous love of anticipated happiness to the grief of love that can only wail its anguish was smooth; the atmosphere in Sanders changed almost instantaneously...
...Walter. He has the misfortune to have to deliver the final blood-and thunder speech, which is totally out of keeping with the character he builds up. Pam King, a black-haired girl with a voluptuous figure, plays Candy a bit too sullenly, though she occasionally is the joyous little animal she should...
...spirit of the earliest Commencement days, as of the early College, was largely chaparoned 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 the New England...
Times have changed only slightly since. The revelry has become more sophisticated and subdued but Commencement is still one of New England's grandest spectaculars. What passes for traditional academic pomp mingled with joyous celebration is just as much kindergarten as college: once a year, now for the 312th time, the boys of Harvard are playing a game they call a festive rite, a game interrupted in three centuries only by a smallpox epedemic...