Word: joying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...argument should be clear by now. The Deans should be answered through letters couched in terms of warmth, joy, humor, perspective, and love. Rather than discussing sex at Harvard, we should discuss why Harvard is often joyless, pompous, cold, and frantic. The real scandal occurs not when a Harvard man seduces a 'Cliffie, but when he is ashamed to say "I love you" because it is not cool, and when he is afraid to express warmth because it is naive...
...Ankas, as anyone would agree who could see her in her heavy shoes and grey apron with a big knife cleaning sugar beets on the convent farm. "She's wonderfully well adapted to Dominican life," says a fellow sister who acts as her manager. "She's very joyful, and holy joy is the principal trait St. Dominic wanted to infuse in his order...
...personal philosophy of life dominates the book. His prologue explains that he is writing a "travel journey of my soul": he hopes that "I shall be able to help shorten the agony of other kindred spirits who have set out along the same path." Sometimes his despair or joy seems as vague and unexplained as many of the philosophical passages...
...large, however, the portrait of an energetic excited man certainly foreshadowed by personas like Zorba the Greek emerges clearly. Praising change, Kazantzakis cries out "What a joy I feel that life is eager to leave me behind; ...is leaping toward other, young people; is attracted by other dark heads! But I am not defeated or left behind, because I am not angry." This kind of optimism lightens even the most horrifying war descriptions...
...bring to light all justice, kindness, joy...