Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paul Hume: "We know of no pianist anything like him of any age"). Last week the result of Gould's recording session was out on a Columbia LP. His "Goldberg" Variations are Bach as the old master himself must have played-with delight in speeding like the wind, joy in squeezing beauty out of every phrase, and all the freshness of the spring water which Hypochondriac Gould uses to wet his pipes...
SURPRISED BY JOY (238 pp.)-C. S. Lewis-Harcourf, Brace...
...Lewis' faith has fallen prey to his urbane style and good sense. Years ago, he was a highly troubled secularist himself ("I had tried everything in my own mind and body; as it were, asking myself, 'Is it this you want? Is it this?' "). Surprised by Joy is an autobiographical mirror held up to a questing soul, and across it flash revealing images of a time, a place, and a class. For Lewis' memoir reflects a public-school England-more courageous than moral, more devoted to good form than to the good-that shaped many...
...after breakfast. Oldie would gaze round the classroom, pick the day's victim: "Oh, there you are, Rees. you horrid boy. If I'm not too tired, I shall give you a good drubbing this afternoon." When he could, Lewis would withdraw to an oasis of private joy-books, nature and the music of Richard Wagner...
...Christian humility, readers of Lewis will find traces of the snob-inChrist. He calls churchgoing "a wearisome 'get-together' affair . . . Hymns were (and are) extremely disagreeable to me. Of all musical instruments I liked (and like) the organ least." But apart from such culture crotchets. Surprised by Joy is a crisply logical, eloquent statement of faith that makes one man's con version as convincing as it is ever likely to be to another. Lewis is a special type. And yet there is universal meaning in his description of his final crisis of faith...