Word: delight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jail on unspecified political charges. Costa e Silva recently broadened the list of offenses punishable by jail sentences to include even talking or writing in terms that have a hidden meaning-an attempt to halt the double-entendres that Brazilian politicians, journalists and the people at large delight in using to ridicule military men. The atmosphere of intimidation is so great that only the Catholic Church dares to speak out in public. In a recent protest, the bishops denounced the "violation of fundamental rights" and called for a return to democratic rule...
...opened "bottles of Welch's Grape Juice in the sacristy before a service?" He dismisses synthetic foods as almost blasphemous and his gorge rises on the subject of dieting: "When you fast, fast; when you feast, feast." Neither prim nor prudish, he considers women, like pastries, a special delight: "A woman is like an aging strudel-not always crisp on the outside, but always good on the inside...
...sense of life and death." She found that only her painting class gave her "a sense of losing myself." Brearley girls sketched nudes from life and painted still-life compositions in oils. Helen was good at realistic painting. "It was in the wrist," she says, with a sense of delight undimmed by the years. "It was a world where I was safe, talented, secure...
...chancellors had watched with anguish as professors fled the increasingly-restrictive UC climate for Harvard and the East. If Pauley's plan were adopted, Hitch said, the University would have a hard time holding any of its faculty. Another administrator said that the Eastern colleges would chortle with perverse delight when they read of the plan...
...year's The Bride Wore Black (TIME, July 5), a hard-edged homage to Hitchcock, contained much of the director's characteristic compassion for its driven, doomed characters. Stolen Kisses is Truffaut's newest and gentlest film, a lovely memory of adolescence that begins with the delight of youth and ends with the promise of a melancholy maturity...