Word: delight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reactions to the tax bill range from delight to horror...
...miracle," said Michael Evans, a Washington, D.C., economist. "Fiscal graffiti" and "a huge disaster" were the capsule descriptions offered by Economist Joseph Pechman of the Brookings Institution. Both men were referring to congressional approval last week of the Reagan-endorsed tax bill. Reaction to the program ranged from sheer delight to unspeakable horror; business leaders were generally pleased, while angry labor chieftains charged that the program was a giveaway to the rich...
...years among the Indians, he had scrupulously avoided controversy. Other American priests in the area considered him the most conservative of their group. Said the Rev. Ron Burke, who had worked with Rother in Guatemala: "He was the real low-key type, just doing his job. His real delight was upgrading the agricultural and health level of the people, training and teaching them...
This comic opera of marketing has a sequel. In early 1980 two more superpremium ice creams with throat-curdling foreign names hit the eastern market. Frusen Glädjé actually means "frozen delight" in Swedish (with an un-Swedish accent over the final e added for class), and the American owners made the unusual move of incorporating their company in Sweden. Their nectar is manufactured in Utica. Mattus took the non-Swedes to court for what amounted to infringement of balderdash, and his case was thrown out. The other newcomer is Alpen Zauber (German for "alpine magic"), a Brooklyn...
...shifting moods with each new spasm of Gilles's anticipation and anguish. Delphine Seyrig, who plays his neighbor, the lovely, slow-witted Yvette, was once the very model of Marienbad chic. It is a pleasure to see those enigmatic eyes widen in what Yvette means to convey as delight, to see her smile squirm at Gilles's gentle ribaldry...