Word: delight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...award recipient Ulrich, receiving the award for mentoring was an added delight to working with her advisees...
...shone, the band rocked and the kids ate fried dough to their hearts' delight. Springfest '99 was a surprising success after previous years' disappointments. The Violent Femmes may be getting old, but they attracted a decent crowd and the shouts and encores reflected the fans' enthusiasm. While some may complain that the band appeals only to a select group of people, the Femmes were not so obscure as to be inconsequential. They were no Dave Matthews, but we leave bigger fish to be caught another year--and we most ardently hope that they will be. It was something just...
While the throw wended its way from center to the cutoff man, Binkowski, belly to the ground, inched forward and, after two lunges, slapped the plate safely, much to the delight of the rest of the Harvard baseball team, which was watching and chuckling from the dugout steps...
...history of sketchiness that cloaks House formals. For instance, Quincy House residents must brave the mysterious "Club Joy." Other House members never get to leave Cambridge at all. For instance, Adams House residents may engender campus-wide envy for their dining hall, but while eating there is a culinary delight, one can't imagine that the same joy accompanies waltzing in it. Dartbord, for instance, would simply be too afraid of being gonged out of the dance. How embarrassing! They may do it up right with lights and clear the floor of tables, but nothing beats swinging with your favorite...
...questionings about the line between art and truth. The really fascinating (and even kind of moving) poems in Figurehead express a powerful anxiety over the duel power of art to both display and destroy truth. Art, Hollander claims, is not only an "'expression'/ of pain and longing, of delight and hope," but also is a physical power in and of itself, intimately connected with physical pain and destruction. Hollander continually focuses on the ultimate emptiness of all art. He obsesses over the power of art to ensnare. He agonizes over the necessarily painful awakening from art's mere illusion...