Word: merriment
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...dejected as the team, Rahul and I were driven back to Cambridge that night by our crack sports photographer Jonelle Lonergan. Surely, I thought, Harvard would win at Yale and regain momentum heading into the final stretch of the Ivy season. After some merriment and ill-advised emails, I slept soundly before our next trip...
...discusses the attitudes of various religious communities towards alcohol use and implies that the Jewish community supports drinking through quotes such as, "In fact, on Purim, you're supposed to get drunk." (Purim is the springtime holiday that commemorates deliverance from national obliteration, and is celebrated with merriment and satire...
...whatever their religion or beliefs. The challenge for those who wish to celebrate: to figure out ways to enjoy what's good about Christmas (time with loved ones, general festivity) while avoiding what is bad (too much shopping, too much food, too many expectations). One way to maximize the merriment, it turns out, is simply to leave home. Increasingly, families, nuclear and extended, are packing up their cars or boarding planes to escape to greener pastures, whiter beaches or snowier hills...
...means, you are not having any. A minute ago, I looked it up, coming first to its unpleasant neighbors on the dictionary page, "fungus," and "funest," which means "portending death or evil." (The root: funus, funeral or destruction.) Then, Fun: n. 1) a practical joke, a hoax; 2) sport, merriment, frolicsome amusement, playful action or speech; 3) a source of amusement, an object of ridicule...
Last year over Spring Break, the men's volleyball paid a visit to the classic CBS game show "The Price is Right" on its annual California road trip. In addition to the laughs and merriment provided by the show, junior co-captain Justin Micomonaco was "called on down" to be a contestant by Rod Roddy and won a parrot armoire, a bar set, and a riding lawn mower...