Word: delightful
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...machine in the garden, the beautiful conveyance and its disturbing effect, is a central theme of the show and a dilemma of the 20th century. Will the automobile drive us to distraction or delight? This exhibition provides no answers, but it poses some of the most provocative questions of the year...
Reagan began the next morning with an "ecumenical prayer breakfast," attended by 17,000 Christian laymen and church leaders, most of them evangelicals. To the delight of his audience, the President delivered his strongest attack ever on opponents of a proposed constitutional amendment that would permit voluntary school prayer. Claiming that the amendment's passage has been blocked by its critics "in the name of tolerance," Reagan asked, "Isn't the real truth that they are intolerant of religion? They refuse to tolerate its importance in our lives." In a debatable assertion that went well beyond the issue...
...court dispute over which athlete had legally made the team. Yet, aided by the absence of Soviet, East German and Bulgarian wrestlers, the U.S. shrugged off its setbacks and earned seven gold medals in ten weight categories. The sellout audiences at the Anaheim Convention Center took particular delight in the superheavyweight bouts, which featured bruisers like Canada's Bob Molle and Japan's Koichi Ishimori, in action here. Molle stayed on top and went on to the finals, where he got the silver medal. America's Bruce Baumgartner beat him for the gold...
Fencing has contributed many useful words to the language, but the average American cannot tell a feint from a foible or a parry from a riposte. This ignorance is heartbreaking to fencers, who delight in giving ten-minute explanations of the attack, parry, return and continuation, which make up a "fencing conversation," but which, to the untrained eye, are only a millisecond flash of two blades. In America, fencing competitions are incomprehensible to outsiders. "We are a small, poor, truly amateur sport," says Stephen Sobel, secretary of the U.S. Olympic Committee and a saber fencer. "We all know each other...
...appeal of the Games simpler than all this? What one has here, after all, are simple contests, simple consequences, the simple delight of observers at basic human activities. Remove the 8,000 banners, the 52 miles of fencing, and the scene is pastoral. Someone jumps or throws a discus. Someone swims. People play ball. Close out the noise, remove the fancy equipment, and one could feel that the Games show the world rediscovering itself in absolute serenity and innocence. Nothing is supposed to be innocent any more, of course, but it is hard to read corruption in the 400-meter...