Word: delight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...served briefly in Hamburg, then was sent to Cambridge University to study Russian. When the Korean war came along, Blake was a British vice-consul in Seoul. Fellow diplomats remember him as convivial, gay, and with a delight in mimicry and dressing up in fancy clothes at costume parties. Blake was grabbed with the other foreigners when the Communists moved in. The North Koreans shipped him off to a detention camp for three years. There, according to Blake's signed statement, he decided that Communism was the better system and deserved to triumph...
There was more than food to delight the kids, however. The group from South Bay Union, girls aged 9 to 14, liked the glass flowers, the jewelry, and the animals in the University Museum best. The majorettes from the Cambridge Neighborhood Club enjoyed the tour of Widener and the story that the librarian told them...
Anxious Panting. That something is the ancient ambiance of Oxbridge-the sheer delight of living and jousting with England's finest minds. And redbrick students rarely match those at Oxbridge...
...hung in the President's office or in the family quarters. Lest she be accused of depriving the public of its treasures, she had accepted only canvases in museum storerooms or paintings that the museum could easily spare. The result: a White House gallery that was both a delight and a puzzler...
...time romantics who make their deliveries without the "Alice-in-Wonderland logic" and with all the power and effectiveness of half the critical mass. The public, in its approach to the performer, cannot effectively substitute legislation for an understanding consistency of attitude which will no longer allow it to delight in the intense romantic creativity of a man's art and fear this trait in his political beliefs...