Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members of the Maniwaki* (pop. about 2,000) Rotary Club, the weekly luncheons, speeches and songs were a special delight. Most Maniwakians, sons of rugged, cheery, gregarious lumberjacks, liked nothing better than these get-togethers...
Philip Neri, whose delight it was "to play the fool for the love of God," managed to be both saint and humorist-to what degree is made plain in Theodore Maynard's new biography, Mystic in Motley (Bruce Publishing Co., $2.50). Biographer Maynard contributes nothing essentially new, is content in his popularization merely to introduce to modern Americans cue of the most unexpected personalities in Catholic hagiology...
...hillbilly ballad The Martins and the Coys is a burlesque of backwoods feuding which will delight lovers of radio rurality and of Paul Webb's mountaineer cartoons, and offend those who think such caricature as insulting as the hush-mah-mouf kind of comic contempt for Negroes. All the Cats Join In is a jukebox setting of Benny Goodman's record, in which orgiastic hepcats and bobby-soxers, mad on chocolate malteds, tear all over the place, paced and sustained by the sketching of a deft, rapid pencil. It will satisfy the young and the benign, sicken those...
...Critic Adams,( Robert Frost said it all when he wrote that a poem "begins in delight and ends in wisdom. [It ends in] a clarification of life-not necessarily a great clarification . . . but in a momentary stay against confusion...
...these orisons, in his baring of soul before a God Who reads our innermost hearts, let the Bishop weigh his responsibility for the confusion he spread in that . . . talk, for the pain he inflicted on all whose only trust is the Crucified Hope of the world, for the delight he gave to those who try to convince themselves that belly, sensual desire, is the only god worthy of rational worship. . . . At the heart of [his] objection to the Catholic Church is his unwillingness to acknowledge the divinity of Christ...