Word: delight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...army ants. He learned that the Fuegians ate their women in a hard winter (instead of their dogs, which could catch otter). Like a great artist, he was half child, half sage. Nothing, from tiny bugs to the giant fossilized Megatherium, was too small or great to stir his delight. He saw not only the kinship of beasts with man but the kinship of man with the beasts...
WARREN MOTLEY is an unusually sympathetic Polonius-less pompous than confused. Michael Ladner and Celestine are very good as Polonius's children, Laertes and Ophelia. Each plays his character very young, and the scene in which they say goodbye to each other as Laertes leaves for Wittenburg is a delight-Laertes trying to be big brother while Ophelia teases and hugs...
Private Lives epitomizes these characteristics. It is 40 years old and as young as tomorrow evening. The present production is stylish, smart, and bubbles with frivolity. Coward creates the aura of anticipatory delight. Momentarily, one expects something scandalous to be said, something bizarre to be done, characters to be mesmerically drawn to each other and just as galvanically repulsed by each other. Just as F. Scott Fitzgerald threw iridescent parties in his novels, Coward has saturated his plays with the ambience of sophistication. One always seems to be slumming upwards at a Coward play, forever lingering on a moonlit terrace...
...Everyone." he said with childlike delight. "From little old ladies from Pasadena to Madison Avenue types who pretend to have missed their train to Wall Street types who examine the hardware to the hippies who come about ten o'clock at night. We've had two rabbis, a priest...
...intellectual effort which the poem demands detracts from our response to the dance-it leaves us fragmented. This is a sad irony, because Blacke's "Song of Liberty" is essentially a celebration of life without restrictions and compartments: a celebration of man free and whole in the "Eternal Delight" of his being. That's what "Pray For It" and "Pavilion" are finally about-and that's what might actually clear away some of the evil spirits in our lives...