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...back on the Green Line, change at Park St., and take the Orange Line through Roxbury (look out the window) to Forest Hills. At the Arboretum the lilacs are in bloom and the crabapples and cherry trees are just finishing. The use of form and color should delight the eye of any aesthete. There is a display about the history, uses and so forth of the collection if you insist on an indoors definition of art. But the best exhibit is outside...
This year's Derby may have the smallest field in 28 years (seven or eight) and probably will be a virtual match race between Honest Pleasure and Bold Forbes. It will surely be a track tactician's delight since neither animal, by breeding or instinct, is willing to be "rated." In rough translation, the term means that if you have to run a long way, you had better run some of it slowly, or you might never get there...
This defense of the fairy tale provides the hard, glistening surface of Bettelheim's book; the very title The Uses of Enchantment suggests utility over literary delight, therapy before amusement. Deep within the volume are less convincing "proofs" of this attitude. The legends of Snow White, of Hansel and Gretel, of Goldilocks are parsed for every psychological nuance. Here the reader leaves the nursery for what Vladimir Nabokov calls "the fundamentally medieval world of Freud, with its crankish quest for sexual symbols (something like searching for Baconian acrostics in Shakespeare's works) and its bitter little embryos spying...
...official forecasts had anticipated a 6.2% G.N.P. increase and a year-end unemployment rate of 7% to 7.5% (the jobless rate had already dropped to 7.5% last month). Though the Administration does not intend to give its new predictions an official stamp, it is making no secret of its delight. Says Secretary of the Treasury William Simon: "This economy is so good there is almost nothing we could do to screw it up before the end of the year...
...human body is one of comedy's supple tools. In agility, it releases tonic exuberance. As an object of humiliation through banana-peel pratfalls or pies in the face, it evokes instant delight. Even distortions or grotesqueries of the body-obesity, dwarfishness, eccentric gaits, tics, stutters, deafness and drunken staggers-have all been known to provoke a startling comic catharsis in playgoers...