Word: delightfullness
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Even in the delightful business of buying presents for children, the object often reflects the donor's own desires-the football from the frustrated athlete, the telescope as a gentle push toward studiousness-rather than an understanding of the child's inner world. Not that entering this world...
Sir: What a wonderful cover story on the delightful Julia Child [Nov. 25]. We are great fans, even though my strictly noncooking husband is one of those men you so aptly describe, who never goes to the kitchen "for anything but ice cubes." Her lavish use of butter, cream, wine...
Sir: It is a pity that other television programs of the new season cannot measure up to Mrs. Child's delightful charm and instruction. Mrs. Child's innate knack for comedy is the best deadpan act since the silent movies. Vive la Child, to say nothing of bon...
The strings did not distinguish themselves except by their sensitivity in balancing their volume with what the singers were able to produce. However, Warren Steel produced an imaginative realization of Purcell's harpsichord part, and his short interludes were among the most delightful moments of what was overall quite a...
Died. Ruth Shipley, 81, longtime (1928-55) head of the State Department's Passport Division, known as "the Czarina of the Potomac" by liberals who objected to her zealous enforcement of regulations restricting the travel of Communists and their friends; of a heart attack; in Kensington, Md. F.D.R. had...