Word: enjoyability
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...country mouse finds that while city food is rich, his cousin can partake only by risking his life in a trap or at a cat’s jaws. After narrowly avoiding being eaten on one of these death-defying food forays, the country mouse returns home to enjoy his humble meals in peace...
...John, I thought, your gift lacks a certain idealistic flair. You never decide to further learning and help students while you’re alive. You wait and donate half your wealth and all of your books for their edification only after you’re too dead to enjoy it all yourself...
Harvard folklore has it that the chandeliers Lowell House residents enjoy as they eat their daily bread were originally intended for Eliot House. The lost delivery man pulled up at Lowell House in 1930, so the story goes, and asked Lowell House Master Julian Lowell Coolidge whether he had arrived at Eliot House. Coolidge supposedly took one look at the chandeliers the man was delivering and promptly replied, “Yes, this is Eliot House...
...personal slice” of ecological heaven: “Your slice of heaven may be the Iron Range or North Beach or Central Park or Chesapeake Bay or Harvard Square,” Pipher writes. “Join with your neighbors to enjoy those places and work to keep them for your great-grandchildren.” Other themes of the book include faith-based sustainability initiatives—“What Would Jesus Drive?”—as well as chilling social-justice soundbites: “Disney exploits its Haitian workers...
...seems to vanish. But when I ask him how much his life actually resembles that of a glorious jet-setting DJ, he answers “80 percent” matter-of-factly enough to douse the glimpse I might have had of an everyman who just happens to enjoy spinning records. Oakenfold’s living the life of a superstar and enjoying it. I venture to wonder how he feels about being called a sellout...