Word: delight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Well, why not? With grisly delight the samurai sells his sword to the first warlord, promptly betrays him to the second. Three men dead. Then he betrays the second to the first. Nine men dead. Then he provokes both sides to a pitched battle. Twenty or 30 men dead and the town in ruins. By hook or crook, trick or treat, the samurai assists the slaughter until, hilariously or horribly, everybody has eliminated everybody. With a grunt of solid satisfaction, the hero survevs the vacant village and declares: "Now we'll have a little quiet in this town...
...main impediment to love, however, is inside himself, in his own acute sense of the silliness and messiness of such a grotesque coupling. At last, in an outrageous love scene in a wildly heaving, water-sloshed state room, Soby cures himself of squeamishness and abandons himself to the delight of degradation and - to him - the inevitable degradation of delight...
They recall that in his prepolitical days, he had a consuming ambition to become an actor - and they argue that he has succeeded superbly. They delight in his adventurous hairdo : "Whatever you want to say about him, he doesn't use that greasy kid stuff." And they point to a political trail that has more twists than that of a palsied sidewinder: the Chicago Sun-Times (whose political creature Dirksen is often, and inaccurately, accused of being) once reported that in his 16 years in the House of Representatives, Dirksen changed his mind 62 times on foreign policy matters...
...they could not dull the delight of at least one jumper, Yugoslavia's Milan Knor, 23, who climaxed his part of the competition by asking for political asylum in the U.S. As for his showing in the championships (26th in 97), Knor might have explained to his departing teammates that it was not so bad. considering that he joined the team merely to get out of Communist Yugoslavia...
...same thing. His tools were secular, but he practiced a religion nonetheless. It was the romantic individualist's religion of the heart, in which love is not an emotion but a deity. Its creed was faith in the miracle of man's individuality, his capacity for delight in beauty, in spring, in flowers, in girls. Its galaxy of devils, which grew as Cummings observed the modern world ("a hoax of clocks and calendars"), included dry intellects, science, mass thought, security worship, Sigmund Freud-everything inside man or outside him that tends to limit his individualism, to reduce...