Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...realize that this man is a True Marine, who has seen action on Guadalcanal (referred to with reverence as "The 'Canal"). It is also explained clearly that his wife has deserted him in some dastardly fashion, taking his ten-year-old son, his pride and joy. (That's why he's tough, see). But it isn't until halfway between the Tarawa and Iwo campaigns that he shows his true nobility by feeding Pablum to the infant son of a girl he has picked up in a bar instead of carrying the interview to its logical conclusion...
...letters to his friend and sponsor, the late great photographer Alfred Stieglitz, were often signed "The Ancient Marin-er." They spoke most of the weather, and mentioned fishing, berrying and hunting as often as art. One such letter, written five years ago, hints at the bigness and joy that the old man still puts in his paintings...
Author Goudge's aim, through all this, is to show that everything is a "carefully woven pattern where every tightly stretched warp thread of pain [lays] the foundation for a woof thread of joy"-which is a fair example of how the sonorous Victorian style sounds in Miss Goudge's version. However it sounds, Miss Goudge's simple optimism, her invariable happy endings and her soufflé of fairies and folklore always pull her through. Gentian Hill should do it again...