Word: joying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English. If one knows Latin, French is already half familiar. Though one be ignorant of Latin, one knows what is meant by "grande nation" or by "declaration d'independance". "Unabhangigkeitserklarung" is a decidedly more baffling symbol for the letter idea. Yet what, upon close attention, could be clearer? What joy is comparable to that of discovery? And what is more certainly the evidence of training than the habit of close attention? Linguistic discipline, like all discipline, is irksome; but like all discipline it is wholesome; and it is unique among disciplines in that it sharpens the instrument of them...
...great moment of the ceremony had arrived. Silver bugles were sounded from the dome of the Church. Their clarion notes cut the still air with peculiar sweetness. A few seconds later, from the north, south, east and west, the bells of Rome's 400 churches tolled their joy...
Because these painters have grown up under identical influences, and, indeed, influenced each other, the differences in their work are psychological rather than artistic. Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud would have studied with cries of joy their respective pictures entitled The Bathers. Feitelson's nudes repose in a rhythm of dissolving, eager curves; his wife's are passive, virginal?cold images of desire pillared in water...
...beneficent oil company, which for several years has conspired with farmers and sign-painters to initiate passers-by into the historic past of Hicks Corners and Pumpkin Village is to be thwarted. The murderous motorist will no longer be reminded that Elljah Stockbridge was shot here by Indians, and joy-riders, pleasure bent, will forget that in this village Deacon Whosis was placed in the stocks for kissing his wife on Sunday. The whole restraining force of tradition will be incredibly weakened by the removal of these landmarks of a glorious past...
...Pennypacker commences his article with a short discussion of the floods of criticism that have besieged the University coaches without giving them any opportunity for self-defense. He defines the objective of athletics as being two-fold: "First, physical and spiritual development and second, the joy of play...