Word: delight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...come in 1760 from the wilds of Pennsylvania to study painting, and he charmed with tales of how he had learned to mix pigments from the Indians, how he had made brushes from the hair of the family cat. Shown the Apollo Belvedere, he exclaimed, to their delight: "My God, how like a Mohawk warrior...
Texans have a special relish for the Spanish flavor of their past. To their delight, this year the sentiment is being reciprocated by the loan to San Antonio's HemisFair of 13 masterpieces from Spain. The heavily guarded collection, estimated to be worth $10 million, includes outstanding works by Goya, Velásquez, Murillo, Zurbaran and El Greco (see color pages). It not only represents the pick of the Prado, but also includes paintings from other Spanish museums. The exhibit is designed to tie in with the fair's theme, "The Confluence of Civilizations," by demonstrating that Spanish...
...Devil's Disciples, Boston's wouldbe Hellians, showed up in force, their colors flying, and spent the afternoon wiping grease on each others' dungarees and beards. A smattering of Harvard's young radical professors took Lindsaylike delight in bantering with members of the week-end ghetto...
...Germans, except among family and close friends, ever unbend enough to call each other by their first name. Instead, they delight in using strings of titles that proclaim the bearer's academic, professional or aristocratic status. Just about everyone has at least one title, and many people have several. German businessmen and bureaucrats never tire of constructing new and more elaborate handles to stretch across their calling cards and frontdoor name plates. The habit has reached such extremes that some Germans are now revolting against it. Typically, the reformers were unable to resist the temptation to compound...
...Woolf, his work has persistently dwindled in strength or substance. For one thing, Albee has developed a galloping case of adaptationitis, culling plots, characters and even dialogue from other writers' novels and plays. More surprisingly, he has lost the forked tongue that contributed so much to the venomous delight of Virginia Woolf. Albee unquestionably is the finest talent fostered off-Broadway, but he remains a dramatic sapling who threatens never to become...