Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FEARFUL JOY (343 pp.)-Joyce Gary-Harper...
Unworried Tabitha. Gary's new novel, A Fearful Joy, is centered about another of his extravagant characters: Tabitha Baskett, a woman with an easygoing moral sense, but with enough common sense to know that the best thing to do with life is to live it. A Fearful Joy is not topflight Gary; sometimes it reads like a fast imitation of his best writing. But there is still a rich ration of fun in it, and the old Gary feel for the texture and grain of people...
...Korean front with Brigadier General Thomas J. Cushman, commander of the Fleet Marine Force. Radford was well pleased. He has no command responsibility for the fighting ships off Asia's coast. Vice Admiral Arthur Struble, who commands the Seventh Fleet, takes his orders from Vice Admiral Charles Joy, who is MacArthur's Far East naval commander, and MacArthur takes his from the Chiefs of Staff. The carriers are commanded by folksy, twinkling Rear Admiral John ("Uncle John") Hoskins, who in World War II lost a foot in a Jap attack on the light carrier Princeton. Every Navy officer...
...joy and glad cries with which you welcome and encourage a third world war is amazing. Hurrah, your format is changed, your reporters and photographers will risk their lives to get Americans to fever pitch for war. According to you, we acted "quickly and well." One is speechless before your God-given insight...
...egalitarian treatment of geese and swans, she writes with such grace and elegance that she is always worth reading. Her own virtues bring her home even when she is farthest off the beam. It is a joy to read her preface to 19th Century Sheridan Le Fanu's Uncle Silas; seen through the delicate, complex lenses of the Bowen prose, it seems a masterpiece. But anyone who takes the preface away from his eye, and looks squarely at the book, will see only a first-rate thriller about a mid-Victorian miss pursued by a bogeyman...