Word: joys
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...back to consciousness, the angel lifted him up out of his bed, Hunter excitedly tells visitors, and carried him right up through the roof of Duke North, out into the morning light, where his wife and sister and parents were waiting. They were laughing and crying together in the joy that he was back. "It's like being born all over again," says Hunter. Kim allows that they are members of Russell Memorial Presbyterian Church back in Greenville but that Todd hadn't been in a while. "I wasn't a churchgoer before, but I am now," declares Hunter. "This...
Brazilians sardonically call their monstrous public bureaucracy O Trem da Alegria--the Joy Train. It is ridden by millions of officials like Cesar Almeida, mayor of a working-class town near Rio de Janeiro. The Globo TV network revealed last month that he has manipulated the system so cleverly that he earns $22,000 a month--twice the salary of the country's President--while teachers earn as little as $70 a month. Brazil was able to finance that kind of waste when foreign capital was pouring in. But now, with the global financial crisis sucking hundreds of millions...
...little epic with a big brazen title, Happiness traces the discontents of three sisters--miserable Joy (Jane Adams); pert Trish, the pedophile's wife (Cynthia Stevenson); and best-selling poet Helen (Lara Flynn Boyle)--their beaux and parents (Louise Lasser, Ben Gazzara). The prime setting is New Jersey, which Helen describes as "a state of irony." The whole film could be said to live there--a place where vile acts rub up against a Mantovani rendition of You Light Up My Life...
Probably the most standard installment at the fair is its wide assortment of ordinary amusement park rides. From the Ferris Wheel to the Tilt-a-Whirl, anyone willing to shell out 75 cents for a ticket can have their 75 seconds of joy. Unless, of course, you are a pregnant woman with a heart condition or stand under 48 inches tall...
...Love, and Joy: Contrasting Perspectives" was the topic of discussion in the 100th Annual William Belden Noble Lecture series last night. Lecturer Armand M. Nicholi and respondent Joseph B. Martin dealt with the conflicting views of Sigmund Freud's materialism and C.S. Lewis's spirituality in relation to the lecture topic...