Word: delight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years the FBI tailed Dr. Soblen. He was aware of the chase and seemed to delight in it, on occasion slowing down his car so that the FBI car could catch up with him. Last week he displayed no surprise when FBI agents arrested him on a charge of wartime espionage, which could carry a death sentence. Taken to the federal courthouse in nearby Manhattan, Soblen pleaded not guilty, was jailed in lieu of $75,000 bail. Coolly he asked the judge for permission to bid farewell to "the FBI gentlemen-they were nice enough." Then he bowed from...
...Dealers' Delight. Until the 16th century and the time of Prince Karl the princes of Liechtenstein were collectors not so much of art as of booty. Then Karl, a prince of the Holy Roman Empire and an Imperial viceroy in Prague put a palaceful of artists and artisans at work turning out paintings and works of silver and gold. His son, Karl Eusebius was even more ardent. He was the delight of Vienna and Antwerp art dealers, for he would buy up whole collections at a time, and added such names to his catalogue as Memling...
...loudly damned the rich as the late Aneurin Bevan, who once ticked off the landed gentry as "vermin." Supplementing his own $4,900-a-year salary as an M.P. with writing, ex-Coal Miner Bevan spent his last years on a 52-acre farm in Buckinghamshire, taking up with delight many of the ways of his erstwhile class enemies, while sticking to his old convictions. When Nye Bevan's estate was probated last week, it was totted up at $65,766.80-a tidy amount to accumulate in tax-burdened Britain...
...movie industry seems to take a perverse delight in making bad films out of bad books by John O'Hara. O'Hara obligingly has kept Hollywood copiously supplied with his bedroom comedies, and through the years such flaming failures as From the Terrace have burst upon the increasingly unenthusiastic American public with marvelous regularity...
...complex system of religious symbols which critics so delight in organizing--the Godot who never comes, the young boy he sends as his messenger with news of his imminent coming, the tree and the rock (the play's only two props), the talk about the two thieves who may or may not have been crucified with Christ--it is as senseless, trivial, and disorganized as it seems to be. "Has he a beard?" asks Didi softly. "Yes sir," answers the boy. "Fair or...(he hesitates)...or black?" "I think it's white, sir." Silence. "Christ have mercy...