California's generation-long chronic budget crisis is over, but, while the sun is shining, metaphorically speaking, happy days aren't here again.
Along the way, I learned that older people are, generally speaking, happier than their younger counterparts.
The stimulus set consisted of 48 words for visual presentation (24 positive, 24 negative), 48 pseudo-words spoken in happy (24) and sad (24) prosody, and 48 music segments expressing happy (24) or sad (24) emotion.
Sentences were spoken with happy or sad prosody and followed by a congruous or incongruous emotional word or pseudoword.
(Mr. Freund, no longer called Jimmy, spoke on happy retirement at his Harvard Law School 40th reunion last weekend).
"Some people spoke volumes," Happy says of Tip, his glib co-worker.
Warm, light-filled days make the natives cheery and friendly and lead them to speak in happy declarative sentences followed by invisible exclamation points and smiley faces.
In the tradition of speaking in happy non sequiturs at victory rallies, Brat said that his victory reflected "basic American values and virtues right from the beginning.
Mr. Samton, 70, with gray hair and a patrician way of speaking, is happy to spend much of his time in the 4,000-square-foot 4,000-square-foot 4,000-square-footht in 1979.
And, speaking of happy kids, we got a dog.
No one had ever heard of or spoke about happy, successful gay people.
