Word: joyousness
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...starting to turn blue, and the bottle was half empty. Joyous Democrats were pirouetting before me, and the night was turning to the old kicking donkey. Swathes of the creatures had circulated out from their encampment in New England, and were chewing grass in the South and West. The Kennedy School's chart showed the Boy Bill well onto the second floor, while Bush had barely clambered up one step...
Until now. Until last Friday night in New York City, when a dazzling group of contemporaries, from Neil Young to George Harrison, from Eric Clapton to Stevie Wonder, took the stage at Madison Square Garden and paid joyous tribute to the music of Bob Dylan. The concert, which lasted well over three hours, was a loose-limbed, dynamic show that didn't waste a second on sentiment or nostalgia. Instead, with Bob himself leading the pack, it trip-hammered through the Dylan songbook, setting free the wild spirit of some of the best tunes written in the past 30 years...
Theatrics aside, Harvard is still undefeated in the joyous epoch of Locker-soccer, named after the team's new coach Steve Locker...
...JOYOUS HOMECOMING FOR THIS SUMMER'S LITtle League World Champions turned sour even before the last shred of confetti hit the ground. Local sports columnists claimed that as many as half the players on the team from Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines were over the 12-year age limit (or 13 if the player's birthday is after Aug. 1). Little League officials in Manila stonewalled efforts to certify the players' ages, and most of the Philippine press and public seemed to view the accusations as an American plot...
...founded Quebec. French lay explorers craved beaver pelts. The priestly black gowns wore hair shirts and spiked girdles in self- mortification, and lusted to harvest souls. They strove to break down native sexual and religious customs, but, as Vollmann tells it, were more tolerant of the Indians' prolonged and joyous ritual torture of captured enemies. Tribes sold their souls (literally) as dearly as possible, in return for iron hatchets, copper cook pots, measles and smallpox, a few guns and, rather late in the game, brandy. When they could, they caught the Jesuits and tortured them, thus increasing the clerics' chances...