Word: delight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Walter Payton run. No passive observer of the learning process, Adler is a full participant. He punches the air with his fists, bounces up and down in his chair, clasps his hands prayerfully to help students approach comprehension. When a difficult point is finally understood, he laughs with delight. During the discussion of goodness, when a student brings up Aristotle's concept of "right desire," Adler roars with pleasure. "What is really good for you is what you really need!" he shouts, waving his arms. Then he adds: "If I get so excited again I'm going...
Proud of her city's "richness and diversity of people and life-styles," Feinstein takes particular delight in the fact that San Francisco is one of only four major U.S. cities operating in the black. Last week she was able to announce a 10.4% increase in the city budget, allowing her to hire 91 badly needed policemen and 33 bus and streetcar workers. Still, the increase is the smallest in three years...
...response. Among his housemates and partners in activism have been Quakers, Episcopalians, and Buddhists--all of whom have inspired and challenged his faith. "I find much more hope living in communities with people who have made traditional religious vows that also include lay people," he points out, emphasizing his delight in living with people both younger and older than himself. "I definitely see that as a religious community...
...emotion that John Paul inspires in almost all who see him in person: simple friendliness. In every one of the 21 countries on five continents that the Pope has visited in his 2½ years in office, huge crowds have responded eagerly and spontaneously to his informality and delight in human contact...
Oblomov is not a surprise. If the Soviets cannot make a decent adaptation of one of their own literary treasures, who can? And it is a delight, faithful to the soulfully comic spirit of Goncharov's novel-about a man who would rather sleep than fight the modern world-yet gracefully free-spirited in using cinema shorthand to keep the story moving...