Some children are just cheerful.
The picture is hardly more cheerful for much of Europe's moderate left, whether in power or in opposition.
It was hardly a cheerful group that settled onto the flight from Ujung Padang (also known as Makassar, Sulawesi) to Biak, Papua, at 1 30 in the morning, nor that trooped off the plane 2 1/2 hours later.
The notion that something which has occupied three or five or even 10 years of their lives should be weighed and found wanting in about the time it takes to order a cheeseburger is hardly a cheerful one.
As we head home for the summer, however, the political scene on campus is hardly as cheerful.
Tuck's story can hardly be more cheerful than Morante's life, but it proves one thing: that Morante was much more than Moravia's wife.
Just be cheerful and positive.
But the readers did agree: St. Marks Place in those days was actually quite cheerful and hardly one of the mean streets of the city.
ONE can hardly imagine, given the cheerful insouciance the stripe is noted for when seen at the beach -- or the respectability it enjoys elsewhere -- that it in fact hides a checkered past.
