Word: delightedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waiting on the side-lines, should anyone get hurt. There are bandages for sprains, and oxygen for the man whose wind has been knocked out of him. All this goes to bring about an age-old masculine dream; a tremendous war with only incidental suffering and sorrow. We can delight in the beauty of naked aggression without worrying about the consequences...
...Greatest Musical Ever Sung, and I write at this late date [Dec. 14] only because hostile letters have appeared so recently in the CRIMSON. As an Episcopal clergyman who does indeed "still take his eucharist seriously," I can only say that I found Durang's musical a sheer delight and not in the least offensive. To compare it, as one letter did (CRIMSON, 11/30), to "a musical satire of the life and death of Malcolm X or a rollicking revue of the atrocities at Auschwitz" is absurd. Both the death of Malcolm X and the atrocities at Auschwitz were tragic...
...young innocents set wandering in his books-the Oliver Twists and David Copperfields and Pips. Through them, his evocations of childhood and the child's point of view are still unmatched for sympathy and immediacy, as well as for their perceptive mixture of terror and delight...
Scientists seem to find the creatures fascinating. "I can hardly walk into an observatory anywhere without seeing one on the wall," Menzel said. Science-fiction fans also delight in the martians, and Galaxy Magazine published a large color section of them last year...
...Master of Mary of Burgundy, A Book of Hours. Edited by J.J.G. Alexander. Unpaged. Braziller. $25. Like the slender archways in the works of early Flemish masters, this tiny, devotional book opens on small worlds of piety and delight. It is a facsimile re-creation of a Book of Hours made, circa 1478, for the daughter of the last great Duke of Burgundy by a master miniaturist. His biblical figures, mock tourneys, glimpsed landscapes and rich borders decked with acanthus rolls, peacock feathers, shells and fabulous birds and beasts brilliantly profit from the example of the Limbourg brothers...