Word: delight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eventually dealing with a 15 to 20 percent reduction in truck traffic--hardly the dent he had hoped for. The media concluded the affair by losing interest after the obligatory violence was curtailed, and the more fanatical independents and the lunatics who took advantage of the situation to delight in dropping bricks onto trucks from overpasses were checked (though not entirely stopped) by increased police protection...
...hours each afternoon, students and parents went from table to table. The recruiters even managed to turn the Midwest winter into a plus with slides that featured students ice skating and building snow sculptures on picturesque campuses. At Carleton College's display in Albuquerque, one girl stared with delight at a photo of the campus. "It's not like New Mexico at all," she said. "It's lovely." Added her mother: "Oh, go there, dear. I'll go too." In Denver, Lawrence's admissions director, David Busse, quickly learned that one interested high school student...
...whose own Egyptian collection is one of the wonders of museology, is not distillation but excess. The Met insists that the sole aim of the show is aesthetic pleasure for a wide public. "Is the ultimate purpose of a work of art to advance art history or delight the eye?" De Montebello asks. "Art history is secondary to aesthetic delectation. We do not exist for scholars alone." True again-up to a point. But the issue here is not why works of art exist, but why exhibitions...
Crossing the square this morning something made me remember that it is more than a year since I've seen you & therefore more than a year since I've had a chance to tell you with what delight & pride all of us who follow you so far behind watch your tremendous progress through time and place. Also to tell you with what gratitude I think of your unfailing generosity "and friendship to me. A good part of whatever confidence I have rests on that. This needs, of course, no answer. yours ever Archie
...Historian E.A. Carmean, concentrates on the role of series in Smith's work, on how sculptural sets arose out of particular opportunities. The show also has much to say about how material determines imagery in Smith's work. But above all, it is an aesthetic delight...