Word: delighteful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the plays under consideration are "The White Devil," "The Glass Menagerie," "The Inspector General," "Idiots Delight," and various plays by Christopher Fry, Noel Coward, and Jean Paul Sartre...
...years, had just promised to keep picking up the tabs. This was especially reassuring in view of the continuing decline of network radio programing and the high mortality rate of long-run good-music shows, e.g., The Voice of Firestone. To its everlasting credit-and to the extra delight of opera listeners-Sponsor Texaco has been as tasteful as it has been generous. In the three to five hours of air time it buys every Saturday, 20 weeks a year, there is not a single commercial. In spots totaling less than one minute. Texaco is politely identified as sponsor...
...first novel, The Natural, Bernard Malamud brought a southpaw wackiness, plus a few touches of cloudy symbolism, to the subject of baseball (TIME. Sept. 8, 1952). In his second book he goes deeper into human nature, and the result is an even more impressive novel to delight admirers in the growing Malamud salon...
...clutches of this vernal mood, we take delight in all that we see. We can no longer be moved to anger by social injustice, graft, incompetence, the Student Council, and the Republican party. We can nonchalantly ignore the need for slower reform in the History Department and faster reform in the English Department. We can eat what is put before us in the dining halls. We can be positive and pleasant...
...handy." Hagerty had a piece of news: the President had decided (thanks to Hagerty's good word) to appoint her associate press secretary, the job recently left open by Murray Snyder, who went to the Pentagon as Assistant Defense Secretary for Public Affairs (TIME. March 4). To the delight of Mrs. Wheaton and her fellow Republican women, the President made the announcement to the conference an hour and a half later-and hardly ever since the signing of the 19th Amendment had there been so much feminine smiling and burbling in the capital...