Word: joyousness
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...move to the colonial metropolis of Sydney, where she buys one of the first things she sees, the Prince Rupert's Glassworks. Lucinda's purchase is not entirely impulsive; she has already come under the spell of glass, with the conviction "that it is invisible, solid, in short, a joyous and paradoxical thing, as good a material as any to build a life from." The unconventional young factory owner soon finds another obsession in the freewheeling world of Sydney: the joy of playing cards in particular and of gambling in general...
Heavens! Is Gerald Clarke's biography of the Tiny Terror, as the 5-ft. 3-in. novelist and journalist was accurately known, a recounting of such scurrilities? The answer is a joyous and admirably unedifying yes. Capote, who died in 1984 "of everything . . . of living," as Bandleader Artie Shaw said at his funeral, was always his own best character. He lived an outrageous life, mostly against society's grain, and invented gaudy lies to pad out the occasional dull spots (an early dust-jacket blurb had him dancing on a Mississippi riverboat). Author Clarke, a TIME contributor, sorts...
...evening a Mercedes roared up to the Summerland Hotel, carrying Diplomats Marcel Carton and Marcel Fontaine and Journalist Jean-Paul Kauffmann, who had been held captive since 1985. Syrian security forces hustled the men to Beirut International Airport, and by the next morning they arrived in Paris for a joyous reunion with their families...
...House of Blue Leaves this weekend--and you definitely should--you probably won't leave the show ecstatically joyous. But you will leave amazed at what the cast and crew have achieved, a fine production of a complex play...
...begins preparations for her triumph. But there are wonderful surprises in store. Follow the intricate ways in which her benefactors' pasts provide Babette with an occasion. Scan the crowd, at once skeptical yet starving for a masterpiece. Listen for that pompous critical voice leading the group from dubiety to joyous surrender. "Righteousness and bliss" is how that voice summarizes their experience...