I was getting happy notions.
With the break-up of the euro a possibility, and governments sinking under the burden of unaffordable entitlements as their populations age and the number of workers contracts, those happy notions are evaporating.Shift happensIn the emerging world, meanwhile, they are not arguing about pensions, but building colleges.
The current hippie-happy notion of Haitians and Guatemalans and Vietnamese all joining hands with white natives in a huge celebration of "diversity" is a complete departure from American tradition and would have shocked virtually every American who lived before the 1960s.
Party empathy; the ability to share and endorse the happy couple's notion of happy.
As an author, I'm happy with the notion that the e-book costs less than the physical one.
Some countries which have set emissions targets for 2030 have reservations about the latter, though most are happy with the notion of a stock-taking exercise.
As his father painted their house, little John brushed water on the foundation, happy in the notion that he was helping.
A multiverse in continuous creation, a perpetual outpouring of energy at the heart of things, was for him a happy and hopeful notion, and one that he at least affected to take seriously as a possibility.
In the 1930's, the film studios adopted a voluntary code of conduct in which they agreed not to portray gangsters (James Cagney or Edward G. Robinson) as heroic, police officers as corrupt or loose women (Jean Harlow) as happy -- the notion being that children would not learn from the movies that crime pays or that there is value in promiscuity.
On the later albums, especially, much of the brilliance came in very palatable forms — straight-up rockers like "Foggy Notion," happy goof-arounds like "We're Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together," singsongy stuff like "Andy's Chest," with its bats and bears and ocelots and kites.
