Word: joyousness
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Miro was one of the few Cubans permitted to meet the planes. Most of the prisoners' relatives had spent the day in Miami's Dinner Key Auditorium, about 30 miles from Homestead. They gathered, about 10,000 of them, in a joyous mood. They waited and waited. Almost twelve hours passed while Castro stalled. Even after landing at Homestead, the ex-prisoners were kept from their kinfolk while being fitted for fresh khakis and given a roast beef dinner...
...good enough? Is it the right size? Some older women are chronically critical, and his is a big problem to children trying to please mother." Husbands and wives often get into bitter Christmas wrangles over which parent to visit or invite, and reunions are not always the joyous occasions Christmas cards crack them...
Escape then, to that place where the essence of Christmas is thriving noisily. Flee en masse to the joyous, crowded, festooned fifth floor of Jordan Marsh. Santa Claus himself is there...
...Pinkerton and Umeko Shindo's wobbly Suzuki. Only John Reardon, the Sharpless, did full justice to his music: he sang with richness and strength, and his diction was a lesson to the rest of the cast, though it occasionally uncovered in the English translation such painful bits as: "Oh joyous, happy days of carefree youth...
...Sullivan and Orson Bean are the co-stars--lest one forget--and no mean comics they; but their only function in this play is to feed the laughs to Ford. Ford knows what to do with them, all right. Aren't you pleased? he is asked. "Oh, I'm joyous; [pause] it's just I'm so miserable...