Word: joyousness
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...pretty psyched that reading period has begun," Steve M. Lubowitz '92 said before his Ec 10 lecture yesterday. Before the lecture, the stereo speakers at Sanders Theater blared "Stepping Out" by Joe Jackson, and other joyous pop hits...
Jews across the world celebrated the Passover Seder, the ritual retelling of the Exodus, this past weekend. This is a joyous holiday, as everyone knows. However, it is not unmitigatedly happy. Integral to the Seder is the spilling of drops of wine in memory of the plagues visited on the Egyptians; we honor their suffering. On the day preceding the first night of Passover, the Fast of the First-Born is observed in mourning for all the Egyptians, innocent youths and guilty taskmakers alike, who perished so that the Jewish people could be liberated. We are not permitted to celebrate...
...hears the Mozart it wants to hear, and today's audiences enjoy not only the exquisite serenity of this music but also its emotions, its subtlety and wit. Indeed, Peter Sellars' "modernized" stagings of the operas demonstrate a very contemporary sense of anxiety and unhappiness. Still, the music remains joyous and so eminently worth celebrating...
...EARN UP TO $1,000 IN 2 WEEKS" read the sign. I stopped in my tracks, nearly insane with the joyous anticipation that all of my problems would be solved...
Strutting through a rippling forest of fleur-de-lis flags, some 200,000 Quebeckers staged a joyous wake for the accord that failed -- the three-year effort to meet the province's demands for special constitutional status. Time ran out on the so-called Meech Lake accord only two days before St. Jean- Baptiste Day, the traditional holiday of Quebec, and French Canadians made the most of the coincidence. Revelers and elaborate floats jammed three miles of Montreal's Rue Sherbrooke last week, celebrating the pride and power of nationalism. "Quebeckers to the streets," they shouted, "Canadians on the sidewalk...