Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lewis puts it in his preface. "How far the story matters to anyone but myself depends upon the degree to which others have experienced what I call 'joy'." While his spiritual autobiography, Surprised by Joy, is not confined to religious experience (Lewis is also adept with educational and litearary experiences), its value is still dependent upon some community of past history and sensation. Few modern American readers will find this bond...
...religious experience, for example, begins in the childhood sensation he calls 'joy'. This, he says, "has only one characteristic in common with happiness and pleasure; the fact that anyone who has experienced it will want it again." He does not expect, however, to recreate joy for the reader. He has spent much time trying to induce it in himself, and did not discover for many years that joy could only be experienced, not contemplated...
...Griscom/ You are good/ Your Pax Vobiscum/ Is understood/ Your children three/ Will soon be scholars/ Till then your free/ No duns for dollars/ For even we'll/ Remember that/ It isn't leal/ To pass the hat/ Until your boy/ Has got his growth/ What then: O joy/ We'll get you both...
Misery is Buffet's trademark; if there is joy in color, it stays locked in his paintbox, and when he paints a flower, it comes out a dried-up thistle. "It is part of us, our youth of the war years, our youth which cannot escape from the climate of the war," a critic exclaimed several years ago. Buffet, who prefers to go on in glum silence, once explained: "I was eleven when war broke out. The misery of the occupation, the cold, the lack of food, all this has become everyday life to me . . . Even today...
...close fellowship of British ghost hunters, whose passionate efforts to expose psychic hoaxes are coupled with an ardent desire to believe in the real thing, there was no more joy over the exposure of Harry Price than there was among anthropologists over the fall of the Piltdown man (TIME, Nov. 30, 1953). "Our criticisms have given us no satisfaction," wrote Price's accusers. Harry Price himself, having died in 1948, was beyond making any rebuttal, unless by further spiritual manifestation. The whole business, mourned the Glasgow Herald, "is a melancholy proof of human frailty...