Word: delight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more traditional vein, Albion is a revelation as Ulysses. Strutting around the stage to the delight of his fellow Grecians as well as the audience. Albion felicitously slides into character. Because Ulysses is unmistakibly Shakespeare's favorite character Albion has the bard's most eloquent prose an his dispoal, of which he takes full advantage...
...past, McCarthy's pugnacity sometimes led her to be labeled Mary Mary Quite Contrary, and she still seems to delight in offering a chair for her subject, merely to yank it away at the appropriate moment. In her lecture "Living with Beautiful Things," she discusses collections of great art, then decides, "By contrast to the ear, the eye is a jealous, concupiscent organ, and some idea of ownership or exclusion enters into our relation with visual beauty." From there it is a quick step to the conclusion, "Quite poisonous people, on the whole, are attracted by the visual arts...
...that you reprinted (Crimson, April 1) to their almost certain delight, does not, as you claim, represent the height of detachment from a product: the man has Edge shaving cream on his face, and he is holding the can. It is attention grabbing, but not, I believe, for the reasons you proposed in your article. Why, then, is it so appealing to a college age audience? Sex, my friend, sex. The women figures, hidden in the picture like "Nina"s in a Hirschfeld drawing, are not intended to stimulate your subconscious; they appear to remind you of that freshman Psychology...
...marvelous pitchman," says Andersen. "Most politicians and business figures are chronically guarded. I was surprised to find a company chairman talking a mile a minute, saying remarkable things, and never placing anything off the record." That alone would be enough to make him a journalist's delight...
...acters complete the collection. The Pole salutes the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott, who perished in the Antarctic. It also celebrates Nabokov's favorite turf: terra incognita. The playwright liked to dream of butterfly-hunting trips to the Caucasus, Mount Elbrus, the Amazon. And he recalled "tingles of delight, of envy, of anguish (when) I watched on the television screen the first floating footsteps of man in the talcum of our satellite and how I despised those who maintained it was not worth all those dollars to walk in the dust of a dead world...