Word: delight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SUPERMAN. Shavian wit frosted with acting brilliance makes this spoof of the courting and mating process a tasteful dramatic delight...
...Once again TIME has produced a Christmas cover story that cries out for expressed appreciation. I am sure that the writer was imbued with the Christmas spirit. He did not run amuck into the obscure with unaided sincerity. I am sure that he found an ironic delight in spelling the name of that fine gentleman Dr. Schillebeeckx...
...ultimate extension, of course, is the jumpsuit; Capezio has one in white ribbed stretch nylon ($33), Bewitching in sheer black lace ($15). First meant to be worn "under everything from evening dresses to shorts," women soon discovered they were far more effective worn under nothing at all. So, with delight...
Testifying for the book, Bullitt said that Cleland was "presenting here a moral situation in which he is affirming certain moral values, certain attitudes. The structure of this affirmation is to set somewhat in opposition the idea of sensual delight on the one hand to . . . prudence, or rationality, on the other. . . . The sense of the novel can be construed as the education of a young woman in moral life; she learns . . . the value of love." Bullitt suggested further that "this clearly is a piece of rather remarkable social history of interest to anyone who is interested in fiction...
...hell, the horror, the wonder, the sheer animal delight of it have drawn thousands of readers to a novel called Zorba the Greek, a mad magnificat to man composed by the late Nikos Kazantzakis. This translation of the book into an English-language film might easily have changed the author's hearty wine of life into cinematic sugar water. Instead, Director Michael Cacoyannis (Electra) has served it up in a grand uproarious Bacchanalian bash...