Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read your cryptic but perceptive Oct. 28 review of Monica Baldwin's The Called and the Chosen. I would like to express a few deep-rooted convictions on these notorious "ex-nuns" and "ex-priests" who, through some psychological guilt complex, delight in tearing to shreds the consecrated cloisters and convents they had no right to enter in the first place. As an ex-nun, I am thoroughly aware that anyone can make a mistake about his or her vocation in life. But why, in Heaven's name, do so many feel impelled to take up a poisoned...
...Delight in the Ruins. Born in the Italian Alps, Nervi got his engineering degree from Bologna, served as a lieutenant in the World War I Italian Corps of Engineers. Out of the army, he worked out his apprenticeship with one of Italy's best construction companies, then at 31 set up his own office in Rome. His first spectacular chance to prove his worth came when he won a contract to build huge airplane hangars for the Italian air force. To avoid using scarce wood and steel, Nervi created a design in reinforced concrete with prefabricated vaulting, produced vast...
...business, when along came a fellow from the Walt Disney studios and asked her how she would like to be in pictures-not in any old cartoon, but in a brand-new sort of thing called "a true-life fantasy." Assuming that her squeals were intended to signify delight, the fellow promptly popped her into a crate, and away she went bouncing to fame and misfortune...
...continues the exhibition with 104 paintings and 31 sculptures. There is something of particular delight for everyone here and at the same time enough for anyone, by no means a frequent combination...
WILLIAM HARVEY, discoverer of the circulation of the blood: "He did delight to be in the darke, and . . . had Caves made in the Earth, in which in Summer time he delighted to meditate . . . Had he been stiffe, starcht, and retired, as other formall Doctors are, he had known no more than they [for] Pride has been one of the greatest stoppers of the Advancement of Learning ... He was wont to say that man was but a great mischievous Baboon ... He kept a pretty young wench . . . which I guesse he made use of ... as King David did ... After his Booke...