Word: delightedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...setting of the street-barricade species of political activism. One hundred years have passed since the Paris Commune was crushed; the event, a coarse bloom of indigenous French socialism, has been the horror of the bourgeoisie because of its bloodshed and its affronts to property and the delight of the Marxists for reasons roughly similar. Marxists do not relish violence per se, but there is no denying that French history furnishes the most spectacular, the most theatrical examples of bourgeois squalor and proletarian idealism, tailored along lines which, since they are the stuff of history, cannot be mimicking a Marxist...
...delight and consternation of an enthusiastic crowd at Lowell Lecture Hall last Friday night, Cosell vented his fury, lashing out at everyone and everything connected with sport, leaving idols and myths strewn in the wake of his irrepressible verbiage...
...social context-and the moral values that went with it-which "hero" Jimmy Porter's nigh-anarchistic statements reviled. And part of the joy that young Britons felt in experiencing the play-and glorified by Kenneth Tynan in his influential reviews-came from Osborne-Porter's own delight in consciously attacking the symbols of decency and stability which had been lulling the progeny of the Welfare State into complacent acceptance and lethargy, where life was guaranteed, but spirit was not. In Osborne's play, Porter's rage had no outlet, and was turned inward upon himself and his personal world...
...hard (6 ft. 3 in., 155 Ibs.), often mustachioed, always with hair breaking at his shoulders, Taylor physically projects a blend of Heathcliffian inner fire with a melancholy sorrows-of-young-Werther look that can strike to the female heart?at any age. Half explaining, half apologizing for her delight in Fire and Rain, a University of Michigan coed who is also a trained musician admits: "I don't know why I love it. I know I shouldn't, because he doesn't really sing. He just sort of intones...
...mind." Their musical mother is also proud. But she, too, recollects that in those days "I always assumed they'd be doctors." Like so many parents in an age of affluence, the elder Taylors provided their family with a free and loving childhood, apparently dedicated to scrupulousness in behavior, delight in the natural world, self-expression and faith in the day-to-day goodness of human nature. At the same time, they assumed that their children would automatically develop the driving will to endure the tough, pragmatic grind usually required for worldly success. The contradiction, as a great many parents...