Word: delight
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...feuds with local political writers, charging unfair treatment. At times, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which supported Spellman during the election, does seem to delight in baiting her. Publishers have also felt her wrath; she refused to meet again with some after they failed to stand when she entered the room?"not for me, but for the office...
...hardcover, $6.95 paper). Excerpts of poetry and prophecy mingle with hundreds of illustrations, including 32 plates in the colors of Blake's inimitable palette. Klonsky provides a text informed with psychological insight and charged with emotion. It fully ratifies the master's celebrated dictum: "Energy is Eternal Delight...
...finds Murray incomprehensible. He constantly raises his eyebrows, squirms, pedantically refers to Nick as "the child" and misses the humor in every one of Murray's gibes. In one very funny scene, O'Brien feigns horror at Nick's doll whose well-endowed breasts light up, but with prurient delight, he sneaks a peak...
...Hackett was not the only Yard resident to shock the Midshipmen and delight the excited IAB crowd. After Harvard's Medley Relay, with two very quick splits from first-year men Tuomo Korola and Julian Mack, had opened the meet by finishing more than four seconds ahead of their counterparts from Annapolis, freshman Englishman Mike Coglin led to a 1-2 sweep of the 1000-yd. freestyle, to give the Crimson a 15-1 advantage...
...handsomer, more dashing. Finally, however, she is gracious. "As life goes on, it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented," she writes. "Presumably you have learned literary humility. If I could write like Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark or Graham Greene, I should jump to high heaven with delight, but I know that I can't." This disarming passage ends with a motto that also fits this modest, agreeable book. Dame Agatha recalls a plate on her nursery wall, "which I think I must have won at a coconut shy at one of the regattas...