Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Banging the Pad. During World War II, Gleason landed in Lisbon with the Office of War Information, used to delight in driving German generals from nightclubs by playing fumble-thumbed jazz on a piano backed up by a Vichy French clarinetist, an English bass man, and a West African drummer. He caught on with the Chronicle in 1950, now lives with his wife and three children in a red-shingled house beset by his 3,000-album record collection, which grows and coils from room to room. As he listens and listens, he hammers out the beat...
Genetic Freaks. Corn is a hybridizer's delight because its male part (the tassel) and its female part (the immature ear) are separate on the plant and can easily be hand pollinated. Most other crops have their male and female parts close together. The long-sought key to separation of the sexes in order to hybridize other commercial crops came accidentally with the discovery of patches of sorghum that had hereditary male sterility. From this seedsmen developed a hybrid. This year the U.S. is planting 8,000,000 acres to hybrid sorghum for feed-half the entire sorghum crop...
...fierce sand storms. Phillips and the 100 land development companies he heads have been prime movers in the great California desert boom. Once a death trap to pioneers, the desert's rock and sand wastes, with their harsh beauty, dry, pollen-free air and brilliant sunsets, are a delight and a refuge to smog-smothered inhabitants of Los Angeles and other coastal cities. Developer Phillips operates on a simple principle: "You can't buy a poor piece of California land; you can only pay too much...
...accentuated, regular, intelligent eyes seeing clearly, spiritually. Her mind clear and lucid. Masculine in her voice, in all her walk..." Her hands were all of one piece, rather than having articulate fingers. Though these extraordinarily made Gertrude Stein the rage of Paris later, little wonder that she did not delight the Harvard undergraduates...
...body is an erotic spoof spelling sex in quotes, as she overtilts a wayward hip or dislocates an amorous shoulder; in marathon-long dances, the stage is her keyboard, and she never hits a wrong note. Under the bravura assurance lies an endearing Chaplinesque poignance. Smiles of delight cross the wistful, wide-eyed Verdon face, like sudden dawns. Eager to please, she seems perpetually astonished at her power to give pleasure, as if the double-take she often uses were her own second nature. More fun to be with than any musicomedienne since Gertrude Lawrence, Gwen Verdon gives a theatergoer...