Word: joyousness
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...outfielder, Kirby Puckett. Through the ingenuity of young General Manager Andy MacPhail, 34 -- two storied baseball names, Griffith and MacPhail -- scrappy Outfielder Dan Gladden was added, along with a pair of heavy-duty relievers, Juan Berenguer from San Francisco and Jeff Reardon from Montreal. Greg Gagne has been a joyous shortstop, and Rightfielder Tom Brunansky a force at the plate. Still and all, Homerdome or away, the critical ingredient may have been the calm manner of Kelly...
...digression, evoking not just a central story of ruinous war but an array of myths and human archetypes and an animal world aquiver with magic. It would be hard to overstate its role as a wellspring of Indian culture. Brook, however, was drawn to its transcending themes: man's joyous awakening to nature and love and duty, the menacing lures of vanity and ambition...
...close to nature. Why does his fate move us so deeply? Above all, by what means does this cruel tale of victimization -- there is rarely a film that so relentlessly documents the meanness of the human spirit -- manage to release in us, of all ironies, such a spirit of joyous welcome...
Last week's family reunion in the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, Fla., might have been a joyous one. The Bacardis could have marked the 125th anniversary of the development by their forebear Don Facundo Bacardi of a way to produce a light, clean rum. His label now accounts for half of world rum sales. But instead of a celebratory gathering of the clan, the stockholders' meeting of Bacardi Corp. on Thursday was another episode in a high-stakes corporate and family feud. A battle for control of the company has split the more than 500 Bacardi heirs and apparently...
Thus began a session of the American Physical Society's annual meeting that was so turbulent, so emotional and so joyous that the prestigious journal Science felt compelled to describe it as a "happening." AT&T Bell Laboratories Physicist Michael Schluter went even further, calling it the "Woodstock of physics." Indeed, at times it resembled a rock concert more than a scientific conference. Three thousand physicists tried to jam themselves into less than half that number of seats set up in the ballroom; the rest either watched from outside on television monitors or, to the dismay of the local fire...