Word: delight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Europe and much of the rest of the world knew five or six decades ago. Though officially he was jeweler to czars and czarinas, his reputation does not rest on what he made that was intended for personal adornment, but rather on objects of fantasy whose purpose was to delight the eye (see color...
...sudden pity, she offers charity to derelict ex-convicts. Seared by the disapproval of her family and friends, she briefly weeps, in the half-grown-up awareness that compassion will always isolate her from the complacent society she belongs to. Then she turns back to the child-worldly delight of a new ruffled birthday dress...
Like all other Giants, the Latins play in the shadow of Willie Mays, 31, still the superstar and the delight of the fans with his freewheeling base running, back-to-the-ball basket catches and powerful...
Twelth Night abounds in great talk, but the most perceptive remark of the evening belonged to Olivia, who said with a glance of pure delight: "Oh, most wonderful...
...allowed that "He's nice," but added that "he doesn't cha cha half as well" as another statesman at the party. Frenchmen, who call her the Ivory One and see her as the forerunner of a new, Europe-influenced African woman, delight in her exuberant, ultrafeminine wit. It did not go unappreciated at a recent luncheon party at Bobby Kennedy's house, at which, latching on fast to New Frontiersmanship, she switched tables after every course. Murmured Thérèse, raising male expectations: "I suppose I'll be in the swimming pool...