Word: delighteful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gets comic sparks out of the cultural short circuits when East plugs in on West, e.g., a professor bent on art criticism ("His use of green for trees is especially remarkable"). Best of all, everyday life bustles through the pages of Amrita with all the clatter, chatter and haggling delight of an Eastern bazaar...
...from the White House came word that another old friend had read the cover story with delight...
Almost 100 years later, the painter Vasari rendered a judgment on Fra Angelico's works that most succeeding generations have echoed and are likely to repeat: "It is an unspeakable delight to regard them, for it appears that the spirits of the blessed in heaven cannot be otherwise than these . . . The entire coloring appears to be the work of a saint or an angel like themselves. Right well did this holy friar deserve the name by which he was always known, Fra Giovanni Angelico...
Lincoln the President, by J. G. Randall, was finished by Richard N. Current after Randall died. Like the first three volumes, it was no reading delight, but it capped the only major life of Lincoln by an academic historian, one who was more interested in realism than in mythmaking...
Right down to the yellow lollipops which the cast passes out after the finale, Pinocchio is a delight...