Word: delightfullness
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A popular lecturer, Santayana's courses became famed. His students included T. S. Eliot, Conrad Aiken, Walter Lippmann, Bronson Cutting, Felix Frankfurter. Robert Benchley attended his classes, said that he could not understand the words but that the music fascinated him. Continuing to live in isolation, Santayana was commonly...
When Grier, a young Englishman on his travels, arrived in Japan, Tokyo's streets were still full of rickshas. Though Japan had beaten Russia and was beginning to emulate the West in other ways, its civilization was still essentially Oriental. Grier found it a quaint, delightful country. Its manners...
The sheer character of Squire Baldwin had by this time covered the stinking piece of fish with a sauce rich and delightful and Made-In-England. Proceeding, the Prime Minister took his stand not upon what he and his Cabinet had done and not upon what they had said, but...
The Fine Arts this week is showing a selection of Walt Disney's best. A rising school of criticism in this country ranks Mr. Disney as the foremost American artist. The furore produced for example, by "The Three Little Pigs", in merchandise, music, and mational thought, is unparalleled in the...
Since Maurois has frequently been hailed as the carrier of the tradition of Lytton Strachey, his portrait of that biographer is the most revealing in Prophets and Poets. He quotes enough of Strachey's witty and unexpected prose to establish convincingly the difference between the master's light...