Word: joying
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...snow and howling winds, yearning for a true dose of nature's wrath. Groups carefully decided how they would frolic; local hardware stores had a field day selling salt and shovels. We wanted the blizzard because we wanted the camaraderie of the collective struggle. We also sought the puerile joy of snowball fights and cancelled classes. A monstrous nor'easter has more potential unifying power than the Game. Deep in our gut, we know that fair Harvard could benefit from a little more communitas...
...hadn't led with my fantasy baseball joke, my reason for living would not have been shattered at an early age. So play wisely, my friends. Victory will grant you a joy matched by no other (I heard you, Shaggy). But defeat can make you feel like a little [expletive]. As Tina from Survivor said, let the games begin...
While my father is not the Nugent who sang Cat Scratch Fever, he and I have had more conversations about rock 'n' roll than about anything else. Rock was the greatest joy of his youth and continues to be the greatest joy of mine. I can't imagine what my childhood would have been like without my father's rock 'n' roll, and I can't imagine what my taste in rock 'n' roll would be like if I hadn't learned about it from my father...
...band's charm is undeniable; its hooks are hard to shake. Who says first records by bands smack out of college have to be lyrically complex or push the envelope musically? In this teen-pop age, a collection of perfectly good rock songs that actually sells is cause for joy. And joy, in the end, is what cute bands are supposed to deliver...
...onstage: a young couple and an older couple. Their names are Boy, Girl, Man and Woman, so we know we're in the land of symbolic profundities. The young couple announce cutely that they are having a baby, go offstage and return in seconds with their new bundle of joy. The older couple then arrive, and, after quite a bit of gab, steal the baby and proceed to convince the younger pair that the infant never existed. These kinds of mysterious mind games, of course, are old hat to anyone who has been paying attention to Pinter, Mamet or even...