Word: exultant
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Does this mean, then, that his soul is not his own? The question is urgent in the minds of those who fear that the Reagan presidency will be shaped and conducted by the God-toting religicos or the fever-swamp conservatives who exult in the hopes that they are free at last. The answer to that question is no, but it ought not necessarily put the worriers at ease. Reagan's soul is his own, yet what sort of soul is it? For those who have observed Reagan lo these many years, the answer is clearly and consistently a most...
Today's sheer quantity of disinformation suggests that the people best equipped to cope with contemporary life might be the Dobu Islanders of Melanesia: they habitually practice deceit on everybody and exult in the craft of treachery. Anthropologist Ruth Benedict, who chronicled the ways of the Dobu tribe in Patterns of Culture, noted that, in their eyes, a "good" and "successful" man was one "who has cheated another of his place." The U.S. is far from living by any such absurd, upside-down ethic. Yet, in the light of today's trends, it can do no harm...
...others and that even his share of sunlight and shadow did not belong to him alone. Second, that "he was not trapped into surviving by the currency of the acceptably real." Third, that he could die then and there, "Bred to a harder thing/ than Triumph . . . / be secret and exult,/ Because of all things known/ that is most difficult...
...with them. In full hockey gear -was any errant knight more burdened? -I skate till my back smarts and my thighs are lead. It is good to leave customary places and remember. This is how sport ought to be: play some, watch some, give pain, take pain, exult...
Only a few months ago, Yarbrough had ample reason to exult. The little-known Houston attorney had defeated a respected San Antonio appellate judge for the Democratic nomination to the state's highest civil bench. Outraged bar leaders attributed the upset to voters, confusing Yarbrough with Donald H. Yarborough, a three-time gubernatorial candidate (TIME, Aug. 30, 1976). After the primary, Yarbrough, a born-again Christian and former counsel to Campus Crusade for Christ, announced that God had instructed him to run for public office and would assist him in judicial decisionmaking. Only then was it revealed that some...