Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Passion for Whites. He ranted of white supremacy: "The nigger is only 150 years from the jungles of Africa, where it was his great delight to cut him up some fried nigger steak for breakfast. . . . Over in Georgia a pambly-wambly governor named Ellis Arnall has sold his state down the river. There are 200,000 niggers registered and Georgia has gone to hell...
Last week Aubusson came to Paris in an exhibition of French tapestries which made both critics and public happy. Said Figaro: "One moves from delight to delight." The biggest and best delight in the show was also the oldest: a 14th Century illustration of the Apocalypse-measuring 35 by 250 feet-from the Angers cathedral. The newest and most surprising were from Jean Lurçat's Aubusson atelier. Despite their secular emphasis on roosters, nudes and flaming suns, they, too, looked somehow medieval (see cuts...
...when Republic handed Writer-Director-Producer Ben Hecht the price of a horse opera ($200,000) and left him strictly alone to create-if he could-a work of art. The picture rates solid A for effort, something between A and low D for quality. Parts of it will delight a limited audience...
...delight, it seems, in trying to hold the South up in ridicule. . . . It's rather a pity that the whole country at this sad hour doesn't have more of the sound and conservative fundamentals of Southerners. And, incidentally, I challenge you to find anywhere a finer or more beautiful city than the southern city of Memphis...
...bigger cities, Ehrenburg had press conferences. As often as not, Ehrenburg asked most of the questions. His practiced polemics were a delight to polemical Sam Grafton but something of a puzzle to Southerners. His reply to questions about Soviet aggression was typical: "That is like asking a wounded soldier who has come home whom he intends to attack next." Initially the answer created sympathy; on second thought it seemed suspiciously oblique; on further thought it seemed to be no answer...