Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard I seldom saw joy expressed over learning a foreign language. Students swelter through a few terms of French or German to get rid of an unpleasant language requirement by pulling down 564 (?) on the qualifying exam; and that's the end. The thought of reading a book for pleasure in French or German seldom enters a Harvard man's mind. Everything "worthwhile" has been written in or translated in English, seems to be the general attitude, and it was my own until these past few months...
...deathly pale face in his hands. At the end of the roll, it was evident that only Pacelli had voted against Pacelli. Outside, before the wildly cheering crowd, a cardinal solemnly pronounced the ancient formula: "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: habemus papam . . . [I announce to you a great joy: we have a Pope...
...Eugenio Pacelli, 63 that day, the event was anything but "a great joy." Later that day, the new Pope went to see an ailing cardinal, an old friend, who had been too ill to attend the voting. The old man raised himself up in his bed and began: "Your Holiness . . ." The Pope interrupted him sadly. "Not yet," he said. "For now, let it still be Francesco and Eugenio...
...named Tehura. Gauguin, who had left a lawful wife and five children in Europe, settled down with Tehura to a South Pacific existence: "Happiness inhabited my home. Each morning it rose radiant with the sun; the golden hue of Tehura's face filled the house with joy and light . . . and [she] gave herself to me ever more loving and docile. I am embalmed with...
...think that the sober, ginhorse routine of existence could inspire a man with life, & love, & joy-could fire him with enthusiasm, or melt him with pathos. . . ? No! No! Whenever I want to be more than ordinary in song ... do you imagine I fast & pray for the celestial emanation? Tout au contraire! I have a glorious recipe ... I put myself on a regimen of admiring a fine woman...