Word: joyousness
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...share their experiences with other parents. Trial and error, the methodology of most parents, can be pretty scary, and talking with friends makes things easier. As they write, "We need to discover that other parents worry as we do, grow as we do, feel inadequate as we do, feel joyous, exhilarated or angry as we do." In this regard, Ourselves succeeds admirably. In reading, the book becomes a friend to talk to, a companion on the odyssey. Ten women from Boston and all the people they interviewed emerge from the pages to help...
...consolation game against Cortland State, Sarah Mleczko scored once in the first half and again in the second half to match the two goals notched by Cortland in the first half. Again, the Crimson entered overtime, but this time the outcome was joyous...
...terms are getting you down. You need spiritual comfort. You need to feel happy. You just need to get away. The gratification of all three needs is just a subway ride away: Godspell, that joyous musical celebration of the Gospel of St. Mark, is playing in Boston through Nov. 23. Stephen Schwartz, the man who helped bring you Pippin, provided the score, of which Day by Day is only one of the many gems. C'mon, get religion. At the Music Theater; call...
...like Peckinpah to violent material. In Midnight Express one imagines the director peering through the viewfinder and murmuring, "Goyaesque," or worse, "Ken Russell." Anyway, the continual aestheticizing of squalor and of brutality, not to mention the poeticizing of prison homosexuality-a necessity perhaps for prisoners but not, surely, a joyous compensation for most of them-finally makes one very irritated indeed...
...will admit. Well outside the mainstream, the Cheever people nonetheless reflect it admirably. What they do with themselves is what millions upon millions would do, given enough money and time. And their creator is less interested in his characters as rounded individuals than in the awful, comic and occasionally joyous ways they bungle their opportunities...