Word: delight
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Galbraith, throughout the novel, seems to delight in tipping sacred cows. Actually, he accords tenure more respect than he does many other traditions that appear in the book. His satires, given his volumes of knowledge, are especially biting. And very little of the Harvard community escapes his eye. Neither the Corporation, nor the Faculty Club, nor Student activists are safe...
...thinks of Rowlandson as purely English, because of his devotion to the English scene and his delight in guying the manners and affectations of the French. But he was unusually well traveled. In a day when tourism was an arduous and expensive business, confined mainly to the rich, he made several visits to France (in the 1780s), toured Holland and Germany, and seems to have been to Rome and Florence. His final trip to Paris was in 1814, when he went to see the enormous collection of paintings and sculptures that Napoleon had brought back as war plunder...
...agree on this much: The Soviet communist leadership's agreement to accept a multi-party political system is a good thing. Maybe we should burst into wild cries of delight, or maybe we should applaud cautiously and daintily. Regardless, nobody doubts that a dose of democracy, whatever the size, is an exciting step in the right direction...
...fact remains: Harvard blew Princetonaway, much to the yelping delight of thenear-capacity crowd at Blodgett...
Midsummer is radical chiefly in its frivolousness. Where during the past two decades Peter Brook and other directors found dark depths of class and sexual conflict, Branagh rediscovers airy-fairy folly and anything-for-a-laugh delight. Freud has nothing to do with this version. Its inspiration is more on the order of Me and My Girl, and the song-and-dance finale was actually staged by that show's choreographer, Gillian Gregory...