Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...Reagans were hit with hurricane force by the shootings of Pope John Paul II and Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, something beyond their imaginations even after Ronald Reagan himself was wounded. They were lofted to heights of delight by Ella Fitzgerald and Lionel Hampton, two entertainers at the White House who took them way back when...
...room, screaming her directions to the oblivious coaches on the screen, and exultantly replaying every Forty-Niner first down verbally. When wide receiver Dwight Clark made the amazing catch in the final seconds of the game that lifted the Forty-Niners to victory, Susan was almost deranged in her delight. In fact, my normally frugal roommate called home in the middle of the afternoon to Shriek to her father (who served as resident team physician at the Forty-Niner training camp last summer), "Did you see that catch...
Students at Harvard 75 years later have a difficult time imagining the thrill their forebearers experienced when they entered the Yard during the twentieth century's first decade. After all, only the most ardent iconoclasts could pass through the Yard on a tranquil, sunlit afternoon and fail to delight in the splendor of its history. Legendary figures, we all know, have passed through, following a path that wound its way through the traditional brick buildings and on to the heights of glory. It's easy to wander through the old American architecture and conjure up impressions of the depths...
This unlikely quintet may not exactly fulfill the ART audience's collective expectations. They sing the original Italian libretto, for instance, and tend to roll about the floor in odd formation--but their capacity to charm and delight is endless. All five are top-flight performers: well-suited vocally for Handel's soft, delicate arias, and passionate and convincing as actors. Sanford Sylvan reveres every syllable he sings as Orlando, and his gentle descent into madness (represented as the planet Mars in this production) is mesmerizing. Janet Brown's rendition of the queen/deb Angelica's melancholy reflection on false hopes...