Word: delight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson is a good man," the 73-year-old Gimo told an aide. "I trust him." Thus, in each country, Johnson met the public, talking and pawing his way through the populace and the politicians-to the delight of most, the confusion of many, and the dismay of some...
...that children got rudimentary protection-when, during a discussion of a proposed home for dogs, someone thought of setting up a home for neglected children. Wrote a Liverpool banker who was at the meeting: "The whole thing was highly irregular and I felt very nervous, but to my great delight, Mrs. Forrer, the president of the Society for Protection of Animals, said openly, 'I am here for prevention of cruelty, and I can't draw the line at children.' " Even today, it can be safer to thrash a child than an animal. The maximum fine for mistreating...
...Hemingway's "lyric shorthand" and the inarticulateness of Arthur Miller's heroes. Says Steiner: "When one is tired, music, even difficult music, is easier to enjoy than serious literature. The new middle class in the affluent society reads little, but listens to music with a knowing delight. Where the library shelves once stood, there are proud, esoteric rows of record albums and high-fidelity components. Where Victorian wooers sent garlands of verse to their intended, the modern swain will choose a record explicitly meant as background to reverie or seduction...
...firm has sold 4,200,000 records in the past four years, grossed $12 million. Customers for Frey's cacophony are children, camera fans who want authentic background sound for their home movies, and-most of all-the "pingpong trade," as diskmen call hi-fi buffs who delight in dramatizing stereo by playing such demonstration recordings as the sounds of a pingpong match. "Look," explains Frey. "A guy goes out and gets himself a Superduper Mark IV amplifier and what the mooch wants to listen to is something to prove to everybody that he has stereo...
BRATTLE: Shakespeare's and Laurence Olivier's truly magnificent color-film version of Henry V. One of the best of Hollywood's all-too-few forays into the literature of Elizabethan England. A visual spectacle and an aural delight. This is the REGULAR version; and the actor' heads remain in view, Evenings...