Word: delighteful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening nights. Openings at times tend to seduce us from our Olympian objectivity. The atmosphere is tuxedoed and festive and charged with excitement, and everybody cheers and shouts and applauds like fury. Well, last night they had something to shout about. Yeomen of the Guard would be a delight on a rainy night in a plague year before an audience of psychopathic dope fiends. Under the conditions that prevail at Agassiz, it is an absolute, downright, unimpeachable, irreproachable, rip-roaring riot...
...state visit abroad since his return to power, and, as a man conscious of the power of such gestures, he meant it to symbolize the reconciliation between France and Germany. Crusty, old (82) Konrad Adenauer, a fellow Roman Catholic who hits it off well with De Gaulle, beamed in delight at De Gaulle's assurances of French solidarity with West Germany in the Berlin crisis. But in London, the British government took nervous note of the politics, and the economics, of the meeting...
...also female chaperons to sit beside them as they taught. The college prospered under Miss Comstock, but until the last year of her reign, she still had to lure Harvard faculty members each year to teach part time at Radcliffe. Then, in 1943, she outraged old Harvards, gave malicious delight to their Yale and Princeton acquaintances by negotiating the deal that allowed Radcliffe girls to attend Harvard classes, in effect brought coeducation to both schools...
Throughout the entire first half, the Crimson attack was a delight to watch. The forwards passed and shot excellently as they kept up a withering attack on the Bruin goal. Crimson coach Bruce Munro lauded the team after the game, saying, "I haven't seen such precision bombing since I left the Air Force...
...lived in his native Spain since World War II, five years ago began new experiments in ceramics in collaboration with his old friend Josep Llorens-Artigas (TIME, Jan. 7, 1957). For the past two years he has been working hard on his UNESCO mural. Its imaginative images combine childlike delight with echoes of primitive Catalan signs and symbols. Once Miró destroyed one whole wall when it failed to please him, and began again. "Guessing the color of ceramic is like cooking a biscuit-you never know how it will come out," explained one expert ruefully...