Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have just received the awful intelligence that Harvard will play Army next year." Let us not sink, along with Egan, into the depths of despair. Let us be unemotional, and remember that "to hope till Hope creates from its own wreck the thing it contemplates . . . this is alone Life, Joy, Empire, Victory!" That's what Shelley said; translated it means that when you have an offensive team that's "up," anything ought to happen...
...struck me like a thunderclap ... It disarmed all images, all metaphors, and cut through the whole skein of species and phantasms with which we naturally do our thinking ... [It was] far above and beyond the level of any desire or any appetite ... It left a breathless joy and a clean peace and happiness that stayed for hours, and it was something I have never forgotten...
Ordinarily I'm a devotee of both Wolcott Gibbs and Evelyn Waugh. So when I read Gibbs' delighted review of Waugh's "The Loved One" in the New Yorker last summer, I got hold of the book, clapped my hands for joy, and sat down for a good time. Now usually Waugh is excruciating and malevolent and vastly inventive. But not in "The Loved One." It is chiefly a one-joke book, and the joke isn't very good--it's about funeral parlor techniques--nor is its effect savage. So practically nothing of Waugh is there--little malevolence, less...
...definitive Christian conception of the Holy Spirit is that not of Acts but of the Apostle Paul. And the authentic proof of the Spirit's presence is not in flames of fire or "speaking with tongues" but in the "fruits of the Spirit" as Paul defines them: "love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control." At Amsterdam, these "fruits" were abundantly evident within the World Council Assembly. Time and again in Christian history, there have been dramatic reenactments of Pentecost, with dubious enduring spiritual fruitage. It may well be the judgment of history that the Living...
...Mount joy with seedy sinners...