Word: delights
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...narrow paths, keeps us in the inner ring--as C.S. Lewis called it. Even when we leave a conversation, we justify ourselves away. "Well, I really have to go now, I have so much work to do." Why not, "it was good talking, bye"? Where did delight...
...students came to UVA with the sole ambition of walking up and down Rugby Road--a kind of frat row--drunk, and with cups on their heads. At Harvard, there are those who are as proud of soberly donning their black "FCS" hats (Final Clubs Suck) as those who delight in sporting their crimson "H" hats. Other walk around wearing "X" hats, while a few wear "XTS" hats. Blake said it well, "Without Contraries is no progression." Harvard is a hundred competing parades with only two shared themes: direction, and a belief in parades. Perhaps this is our redeeming grace...
Then it all became a bit confusing, a pungent brew of alcoholic reverie and post-election hysteria. Clinton broke 270 votes, and the hall seethed with delight and unrestrained hugging. Perot took to the dance floor and Bush, looking rather pleased with himself--"Look Barbara, I've lost an election. Aren't I clever?"--committed the decade's most revealing slip in thanking, yes thanking, Governor Bill. Democrats in the hall took their long-awaited chance to fondle each other, election results from God knows where flickered seductively on screen, and, oops, that was my last drop of the noxious...
...MIGHT UNDERstand, the lobby of the Time & Life Building is a bit like Kansas: gray and austere, a no-nonsense kind of place, populated mainly by adults. But pass through the gray door set off to one side, and suddenly, like Dorothy and Toto, a visitor feels the unexpected delight of stumbling upon a colorful world of spirited munchkins. Welcome to the Time Warner Children's Center, a month-old facility that provides emergency day-care services to company employees...
Last Tuesday even the most radically liberal of my friends were giddy with delight. Clinton may well represent neo-liberalism, a swing to the right. Who cares? We'll quibble over his policies later. Americans actually elected a Democrat! Even with the polls of the previous weeks it was hard to believe that a Democratic president could actually be elected. We Red Sox fans have been close before. All the distinguished commentary in the world didn't match up to watching George Bush concede and hearing the phrase "president-elect Bill Clinton." Some of my friends got drunk, others danced...