Word: delightedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...official forecasts had anticipated a 6.2% G.N.P. increase and a year-end unemployment rate of 7% to 7.5% (the jobless rate had already dropped to 7.5% last month). Though the Administration does not intend to give its new predictions an official stamp, it is making no secret of its delight. Says Secretary of the Treasury William Simon: "This economy is so good there is almost nothing we could do to screw it up before the end of the year...
...surface, wrestling seems tawdry and cheap: a couple of overweight men (or women, or midgets) pretending to hurt each other, the crowd taking pleasure in their pain. But professional wrestling appeals to much more than the crowd's delight in random violence, since it shows not mere brutality but a struggle between the forces of good and evil. The program for the match makes it easy to tell one from the other--all the bad guys are listed in the left-hand column. But the crowd already knows most of the wrestlers from television interviews--Bruno, of course, is earnest...
...certainly does that, but that it promotes the abandoning of fairness and restraint to achieve personal ends. Bruno grinds the chain into Koloff's face, then strangles him against a turnbuckle--and a small man in front of me, sitting with his mother, wife, and children, shrieks with delight...
...compared with what went on in ancient Greece, says Chairman Glen Bowersock of Harvard's classics department, "the U.S. hasn't seen anything." Classical pornography was largely created, he says, "by the most intelligent, erudite and cultured people in the society" and was a source of pleasure and lively delight. Unlike American porn, it was not "cheaply and badly done, solely to make a buck." And, argues Bowersock, contrary to popular legend, pornography did no harm whatever to the culture of ancient Greece. The most that can be said of ancient Rome, according to Jeffrey Henderson, Yale assistant professor...
Deep fried or steamed, the Atlantic blue crab is a gourmet's delight. William Warner's book about Callinectes sapidus (the creature's first name is Greek for beautiful swimmer, its last, Latin for tasty) is a reader's treat. Warner, a consultant to the Smithsonian Institution, has spent years studying the blue crab and his human harvesters in their natural habitat, Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. The result of his study is a piece of popular oceanography worthy of shelf space alongside Rachel Carson's classic Edge of the Sea and Henry Beston...