Word: joyousness
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...bathed my joyous soul with her smile...
Paul Robeson spent his whole life in pursuit of this ideal of community and brotherhood, this vision of sharing and joyous community that he had known as a child in the black quarter of Princeton. From this supportive, close-knit, hemmed-in sphere, Robeson stretched his horizons further and further outward, crossing oceans, making friends, disarming bigots with his undeniable talent and charm. He strove to make first the white world, then the international cultural world, every bit as much his home as the living rooms of his poor black relatives in New Jersey...
Whatever the outcome in October, Carew's quest for the elusive .400 is a welcome and joyous event for baseball, helping to turn the sport away from its fractious present and back to its roots. After a generation of musical franchises, a decade of labor unrest in the locker room, a time of free agents and frostbitten World Series in mid-October, baseball sorely needs to get down to basics. Carew is the right man at the right time, a modern version of Wee Willie ("Hit 'em where they ain't") Keeler pushing the ball past grasping...
According to the Scriptures, Christ said to the woman taken in adultery. "Go, and sin no more." Would he, speaking in today's clichés, say something like this: "As to your extramarital affair: Was it self-liberating, other-enriching, life-serving, creative, integrative and joyous? If so, then it was morally acceptable. Go now, and have a good...
...soldiers led the four captured Moluccans from the building and forced them to lie down for a body search. At 6 o'clock the villagers saw teachers waving from an ambulance bus. Realizing that the four schoolteacher hostages were safe, the villagers suddenly began throwing paper streamers in joyous relief...