Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...irritating quality, the formless formula works well enough in evoking the often simultaneous boyhood moods of scorn, fear, sentimentality, barefootedness and gleeful obscenity. Writes Kerouac at wild random: "A young and silly dove is yakking in the blue, circling the brown and slushy river with yaks of pipsqueak joy," and "the mystery which I now see hugens, huger, into something beyond my Grook...
Vellucci reported that Long was "really elated over the fact that all our city fathers" and local civic groups were happy about the proposal. But one city father, DeGuglielmo countered "I never indicated any overwhelming joy over the proposal." He termed the proposal "utterly fantastic," and doubted that it could be put on the land in question...
Discouraged kids have known his smile, His friendly, guiding hand . . . Please help him back to health again And joy will fill the land...
...brooding eye. War, he believes, has enduring appeals: "Some scenes of battle, much like storms over the ocean or sunsets on the desert or the night sky seen through a telescope, are able to overawe the single individual and hold him in a spell." There is also the "communal joy" of comradeship and, sometimes, the delight in destruction: "Men who have lived in the zone of combat long enough to be veterans are sometimes possessed by a fury that makes them capable of anything . . . They storm against the enemy until they are either victorious, dead, or utterly exhausted...
...include a soldier who certainly led his own life, constantly asking his comrades how they felt about death, marveling at the spectacle of war, wondering at man's urge to destroy. That man would have been Lieut. Glenn Gray, writing to a friend on the riddle of cruelty: "Joy and beauty have many different faces, but brutality and hatred have but few. I have come to the extremity of knowing beyond all doubt that there is no other way for me to survive this period except the hard Christian way of finding the finer points in my associates...