Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writes her deft, frothy novels in English. With engaging candor and none of the moodiness of her famed brother, she tells in With Much Love the story of the family's first 21 years in France. Few books of family reminiscences have been written with such obvious joy and communicate so much of it to the reader...
...Eastman, once a violently articulate Socialist and now a Reader's Digest "roving editor," has written about enjoyment in a way that takes most of the joy...
...Russians between us have made it very clear that our assistance is not disinterested. But millions of Europeans sensed that only the unique and uncalculated generosity of millions of Americans made Mr. Marshall's offer possible last June. That is still remembered, though not with unalloyed joy. The human heart in the coal valleys of Wales or beside the Po is pretty much what it is in Kansas. People do not like to be excelled, even in generosity...
...Other One." M.P.s called Sidney "Nannie" because of his bushy goatee. "Small . . . rotund . . . tapering [off into] diminutive hands and feet," he was a cartoonist's joy. But to his adoring Beatrice, "the Other One" was her lord & master, her "little boy," and "man of destiny" rolled into one. Sidney was never ill, never daydreamed, never had a nightmare, never suffered from moral qualms or neurotic doubts. He could read and write sociological statistics day in & day out, and still have strength to work on numerous committees, coolly and tirelessly conducting "endless intrigues to persuade those in authority...
...should greet the news that men in upperclass courses will be freed from mid-term grades and monitors next fall. The faculty vote of last week eliminating compulsory November and April marks and required attendance for all courses "primarily for Juniors and Seniors" does allow for simple relief or joy as a reaction, but it should also be applauded on two other, more important levels...