Word: delightfullness
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The notion that a novel should offer pleasant, diverting entertainment is unfashionable these days (as is, for that matter, the notion that entertainment should be pleasant or diverting). No young writer who hoped to find a publisher would begin his novel, as the late Angela Thirkell did her latest book...
Warmed up by the opening Bach Partita No. 5 (G major), Hellman played Beethoven's Sonata Op. 78 with delightful clarity. This oddly structured little sonata has two movements, both allegro, preceded by four measures of 'adagio cantabile.' The harmonies and motives of these four measures contain the thematic material...
Beck and Maxwell gave an audience that wanted to laugh ample opportunity. Their French trio was well-chosen, well-acted, and well, delightful.
Harry Smith's Puck, by contrast, is a curiously dour figure. An extremely active and athletic Puck, he nonetheless refuses to enjoy himself; "Lord, what fools these mortals be" comes out as a hoarse shrick of despair. He is a virtuoso, but he as not Puck. Yet with the help...
Then there is Miss St. John's delightful penchant for synopsizing local attitudes. She hardly realizes what snobs her heroes are. Heroine Brooks for example, is involved in the following episode: "As she made her way to the exit she was jostled and pushed by two boys behind her. She...