Word: delighteful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orsini at Bomarzo is a whole sculpture garden of beasts and ogres carved from volcanic rock (see color pages) on the site. Rarely has sentiment taken a more bizarre turn. Created in the 1560s by Duke Pierfrancesco ("Vicino") Orsini, the sculpture garden was meant not only to astonish and delight, but to serve as a memorial to Orsini's deceased wife...
Married. Lester ("The Debutantes' Delight") Lanin, fiftyish, wiry, jumpy bandleader whose ubiquitous multicelled society orchestra commands fees up to $15,000, has been known to play for as many as 25 widely scattered parties in a single night; and Marilyn Weiss, 22, his secretary; both for the first time; in York...
...nations, European visitors seemed far more approving of the U.S. exhibit than Americans. (One unplanned highlight: the U.S. exhibit offered large numbers of comfortable free chairs for weary visitors.) Americans were in unanimous agreement that the U.S. Pavilion building, designed by Architect Edward Stone (TIME, Mar. 13), was a delight-even Letter Writer Robertson praised...
...attendance rolled on at a steady 3,000 a day. Nothing short of war or revolution will keep the crowds below 5,000 a day at the peak of the tourist season in mid-August. Nowhere on earth is there another edifice dedicated to man's delight in art that is comparable to the mammoth structure along the Seine, spreading over 49 acres...
Typing Trouble. In Paris the junta's resolution was seen for what it was: open defiance of De Gaulle's authority. Deliberately misinterpreting De Gaulle's speeches, the junta expressed its delight "at having been able to obtain the promise of total integration of Algeria into Metropolitan France." In an excess of arrogance, the resolution went on to demand "the disappearance" of political parties in France, and the formation of "a genuine government of public safety...