Word: joys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Commencement is so named for a reason. It's meant, not as an ending, but as a beginning to life in the real world. It's supposed to be a cause for celebration. The colorful, comical scene that erupts each year captures the joy of the occasion. It also gives students a pretty good chance to demonstrate what they've learned in the past four years. If they've learned to make their opinions heard--and if they've learned that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is unacceptable--then Harvard has done at least part...
...from expressions of love, he is desperate for wisdom from any source. And -- surprise! -- Father Dan has some for him. "Of course life sucks," the cleric says. "It always will. So how dare you not make the most of it? . . . There's only one real blasphemy: the refusal of joy! Of a corsage and a kiss...
...bouquet of sentiment and the kick of rude truth. To the tart social wit of gay writers from Oscar Wilde to Joe Orton he adds irrepressible high spirits -- a tonic when so much of literature has the terminal glums. This Renaissance jester is a yea-sayer, a missionary for joy. "Usually when I'm asked why I write," says Rudnick, 35, "I reply, 'To avoid a day job.' But the truth is that there are people in real life I want to honor. It's easy to write about despair. It's tough to present optimism realistically and appealingly...
...Yells of joy -- and relief -- rang through the basement of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in south Los Angeles, which had become a kind of command post for efforts to head off a repeat of last year's bloody riots. Dozens of volunteers, gathered at the church to pray before walking neighborhood streets to try to keep order, joined hands nervously as the verdicts approached. At the word "guilty," all leaped to their feet, literally jumping for joy. Some hugged and kissed, others exchanged jubilant high-fives. Outside the courthouse, Rose Brown, a self-described community activist, cried, "Finally...
...like a joy. It's kind of a degrading atmosphere," Hooks said. "It's kind of frustrating and bothersome to work there, but that's just something that goes along with working in the dishroom or on the serving line...