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...depths of our being - one that is an adjustment of our whole being with the conditions of existence -John Dewey) FELICITY, a more bookish or elevated word, may denote a higher, more lasting, or more perfect happiness (all the felicity which a marriage of true affection could bestow -Jane Austen) (Jeticity or continued happiness consists not in having prospered, but in the process of prospering -Frank Thilly) BEATITUDE refers in this sense to the highest happiness, the felicity of the blessed (the years of loving sacrifice in scraping that boxful without letting Patty go short were amply crowned for John...
...lose it, or anything on it, is hell. Ippolita's mother tongue lashes the easygoing parish priest for not refusing Holy Communion to game poachers and fish stealers. When Ippolita becomes mistress of the San Lio domains, she visits the orphaned poor, "not of course to bestow money on them-for the poor use money unwisely-but to hand out bits of dried bread and cheese...
...Harold Shult?, heroically applied this principle after a brave of the Xavante tribe, furious because Shultz had no gift for him, plunged a knife hilt-deep in Shultz's shoulder. Seriously wounded, Shultz made his way back to civilization, returned the following year, one arm hanging useless, to bestow a shiny new knife on his assailant. The shamed tribe made Shultz a member...
British men have long insisted that what God and good breeding stock bestow, women had best leave alone.* At long last, British women discovered that they knew better, suddenly recognized what a difference a little lipstick can make. To meet the booming demand for cosmetics, U.S. companies such as Helena Rubinstein, Elizabeth Arden and Revlon have moved in alongside such traditional powder-and-scent houses as Atkinson, Goya and Yardley to take aim on a $300 million-a-year business. Although one-quarter of British women still use neither powder nor lipstick, eye shadow sales have jumped...
Iron Curtains Bestow Advantages, But So Does Freedom...