Word: joys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many as a state of "heightened activity, intellectual clarity, feelings of well-being," according to Angier. "One of my most beautiful memories of college," she recalls, "is of a first day of a period. I was sitting in my living room, studying, and felt an unaccountable surge of joy. I looked up from my book and was dazzled...
...Lucianne Goldberg and Linda Tripp and those squirrely lawyers from the Federalist Society had remembered that, they might have realized that they were about to bring nothing but frustration to Paul Weyrich, not to speak of the Republican Party. Instead they must have whooped with joy when the trap was sprung. As I envision that scene, it's Friday, dress-down day in the law firms, and the Federalist Society lawyers are all wearing designer jeans...
...does not just play drums this enormous-to approach them is a discipline. Kodo is formed by a community of artists living on Sado Island in the Sea of Japan. While their perfect synchrony and physically rigorous technique approaches the martial arts, the group expresses an infectious playfulness and joy. Kodo reveal a childlike approach to drumming in the Japanese characters of their name, which can mean either "children of the drum" or "heartbeat," the original rhythm of the mother's heartbeat as first heard in the womb...
Other pieces are remarkable in the intricacy of their patterns and contrasts. Kodo ended their performance with "Yatai-Bayashi," in which the obvious joy of the musicians and the insistency of their drums made it almost impossible to sit still. Kodo's immense rhythmic power and beautiful artistry make them welcome ambassadors of this traditional Japanese musical form...
...parents take their roles very seriously and can clearly articulate their philosophy of raising children, a philosophy that reflects an optimism about human potential. "If you bring someone into the world, you have a responsibility to make sure she is a happy person, that she has a sense of joy as well as being well-developed socially and intellectually," Ken Dovey says. "Some parents use other explanations as a cop out. In the end, parents have a huge influence on their children...