Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and..." Vag slammed down the window, drowning out the soundtrack. He flung himself in a chair. "Everyone gets the idea that Christmas time just means handouts. Well, the first to go is Margaret. There's not going to be any tip this year...
...word modern does not mean in publishing what it means in the used-car business. Some of these novels are definitely vintage models which first startled the highbrow highways more than a quarter century ago. Nor do they necessarily provide a joy ride. In Joyce's The Dead, the reader will find a depressing Christmas party in lace-curtain Dublin; in Melville's Billy Budd, Foretopman, the hanging of a sailor aboard a British man-of-war of the Hornblower period; in Porter's Noon Wine, the madness and death of a farmhand and the suicide...
...surprising that the weakest of Wilde's works are those that reflect what he himself considered the weakest part of his character. Few of his poems pass muster today; they are the lush, overripe productions of a man who got "a curious joy" (a "kick" is the modern word; out of being "spendthrift of my own genius" and let himself "drift with every passion till my soul / Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play...
...juvenile Jenkins was jumping with joy, As he sported him over the sandy lea; In his small fat hand there was many a toy And many a cake in his mouth...
BURIAL SERVICE: "In saying our last farewell to John Stevens, we shall read a sonnet by George Santayana, who once wrote: 'The length of things is vanity; only their height is joy.' From Santayana...