Word: delight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrecked marriage. His conclusion is disappointingly flat ("I am what I am"), but in the process of reaching it, Herzog-Bellow ranges wittily, learnedly, and perceptively over nearly all the dilemmas-major, minor, and plain absurd-of 20th century man in a virtuoso display that is a constant delight...
...sewers alone, but all the things that offend the typical tourist in Spain -stalled trains, unpredictable electricity, fire engines screaming like "Amazon howling monkeys"-delight Honor Tracy in this brief and lively travel book. She is entertained by what most tourists never even notice: "The men maintained their usual impassive demeanor" and, dressed in corduroy suits and broad black hats, looked "out from the dusty taverns hour after hour, silent, neither drinking nor playing cards, as if merely waiting for the end of the world...
...miles to bring her ice. Are Spanish nightclub acts and zarzuelas sometimes performed by stuttering septuagenarians, Goyaesque dwarfs, and faded, toothless beauties? It doesn't matter. It's more fun to watch the audience, such as one old man who was ogling the girls and groaning "with delight as an old dog does when his ears are fondled." Are Spain's majestic cathedrals filled with "gabbling priests, rowdy acolytes, grubby vestments, candles drunkenly reeling and raining grease on all around, flowers faded or dead, statues thick with dust, sacristans spitting on the floor?" Neatness and decorum...
Cliffies greeted the innovations in Lamont with general delight. While one meek upperclassman admitted that "it's kind of sad to see the last bastion crumble," most sympathized with one militant who said, "This is just the beginning. We will take over...
...before me a wondrous space and some of those marvelous people at whom I dared not look too long for fear their Hollness should wither me. At the second plateau I sow glass doors right and left, and the beautiful holy music of Silence so overwhelmed me by its delight that I swooned. With the return of my mind that was shut off, I found myself at the third plateau. My Classmate, who was accompanying me and encouraging me with every footstep, whispered to me that First Class Citizens came in at this level to proceed to the Vision...