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...most radical elements among the rebels." Before long, Borge's men killed one business leader, arrested others, and sent mobs to attack the newspaper La Prensa. Christian concludes: In Nicaragua the American media went on a "guilt trip." The story that reporters told- with a mixture of delight and guilt- was the ending of an era in which the U.S. had once again been proved wrong. . . "Intrigued by the decline and fall of Anastasio Somoza, they could not see the coming of Tomás Borge...
...bivouac in the Sistine Chapel and take idle target practice at the ceiling. But excellence is essentially invulnerable. It carries the prestige of the infinite with it, an ancestral resemblance to the ideal. It is ecstatic. For an irrevocable moment, it gives the mind what Melville called "top-gallant delight...
Leprechauns' delight...
...those in San Diego who love a play, prompting them to build a new, far better theater. When the new Old Globe opened last month, they could see just how well their $6.5 million had been spent. Both the theater and the company please the eye and delight the mind...
...astonished Sabom was the uniformity of the patients' accounts. All recalled a sense of timelessness, an awareness of their own deaths, and a strong sense of reality. (It was "realer than here," said one man.) Patients remembered an absence of physical pain, a feeling of tranquillity and even delight ("That was the most beautiful instant in the whole world when I came out of that body...