Word: joys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most U.S. believers, apparently thinking of the afterlife as bliss unalloyed, described their views of it as "complete happiness, joy, peace, quiet." Other views of the hereafter: "reward for virtue, punishment for sin, heaven or hell"; "dreamlike, disembodied, inanimate, spiritual"; "as described in the Bible...
...realistic" writers was their unrealistic failure to understand that "no man lives in the external truth, among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied walls." "True realism," Stevenson concluded, "always and everywhere is ... to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice. . . . For to miss the joy is to miss...
...precisely this joy that solemn Critic Daiches misses. Readers will certainly leave his book convinced that Stevenson, as he grew older, was more interested in problems of human relationships, less absorbed in the fantasies of pure action and adventure. But they may jib at Critic Daiches' regret that Stevenson "arrived so late at the discovery of the kind of writing in which alone real greatness lies." Real greatness is not as choosy as its critics, and Stevenson's best adventure stories share a shelf with the Iliad, the Canterbury Tales, the Arabian Nights, Romeo and Juliet, Robinson Crusoe...
...colonial heyday, Burma had been a joy and profit to the British Empire. It was rich in rice, teak, petroleum and jewels; its amiable people (according to one historian) "caused no governor-general a sleepless night." In 1942 the British awoke; as British troops retreated from Burma, the conquering Japanese made quick friends among Burmese politicians. In 1943, the British returned as liberators, but only to prepare a graceful exit...
...basketball squad has a couple operatives named Joe Fulks, the law of averages points out that it will win games by virtue of its being "hotter" than its opponent only 50 percent of the time. And Walt McCurdy, whose set shot is a thing of beauty and a joy forever, is the only man who approaches such an operative on the Crimson quintet...