Word: savour
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...symphonies, the soft sob of loss, the subway shudder and the sigh. Night warms its black limbs by the gutter fires and furnace spit. We should bottle the night, prone and passive, siphon it into leather canteen flasks, take swigs of it while sunning ourselves by the river, savour it after a French loave-lunch, rub it on our arm in lieu of excrement...
Even more important, the emphasis of the course should be on the trends in literature rather than on single authors. If open to freshmen, such a coures might be an effective enticement for concentrating in English. Also, it would allow non-concentrators to savour the essence of English literature without either skimming the arid territory of minor figures or bogging down in the Old Masters. With a few revisions, English 10 could be a far more valuable basic course...
Before the Civil War, water color painting and painting on velvet came next after samplers in the accomplishments of proper little women. No adult productions reflect as limpidly as theirs the ironbound sobriety of that period. Among examples shown last week were an able Baptisam of our Savour by Ann Johnson, age unknown, and five "mourning pictures"- families standing at tombs overhung with weeping willows. Inscriptions: "The Grass Witherith, the Flower Fadeth, and the Hopes of Man is Destroyed"; "Our Dying Friends are Pioneers to Smooth our Rugged Pass to Death...
...program. Yet, they have, for the most part, been the work of men or parties materially interested in discrediting the Roosevelt regime. One understands attacks made by Republicans on a Democratic administration. They may have the truth of the gospels, the forces of a juggernaut and still retain the savour of partisanship. However, when a party in power is criticized by a large proportion of its own makeup; when that attack is led without trace of self-advancement or breath of bitterness by a man versed in the ways of governing, a man of unquestioned integrity, then, that attack will...
Picture Keats "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer in the Everyman Edition." You see how ludicrous it is. There is in antiquity, a certain savour which is the salt of life...