Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with that speech. Beyond discipline of craft and a reverence for tradition, the English theater retains the renown of greatness because it has behind it an unseen but not an unheard god, the English language. This wonder of wonders is a verdant isle of beauty, a tiara of crystalline delight, a font of wit and wisdom, a burnished mirror of the mind. Born to a noble tongue, Maggie Smith serves it nobly...
...Prevention of Violence. Much of it has been said before and it is hardly a model of writing, editing or even proofreading (typographical errors extend to the title page). Yet the paperback, which weighs nearly two pounds, should interest both the critics and the criticized -though it will likely delight neither...
...carried monetary restraint so far as to create the danger of recession. Says Economist Henry Kaufman of the Manhattan bond house of Salomon Brothers & Hutzler: "Success in 1970 is virtually a necessity for the survival of the Federal Reserve System." Next week, to Patman's undisguised delight, Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin will reach the legal limit for time on the job and will retire. Washington will miss the frequent confrontations between Martin and Patman at hearings of the banking committee; on one occasion, Patman condemned Bill Martin as "the most disastrous influence in American history." Patman...
Significantly, The Band's music is quiet. They once played harddriving, ear-numbing rock. Now they deal in intricate, syncopated modal sound that, unlike most rock but like fine jazz, demands close attention and rewards it with a special exhilarating delight. When The Band plays, it is not for a trip but a musical treat. Though their newest LP, The Band, is high on Billboard's "Top LP" chart and they have sold close to a million records, this does not mean that The Band will be everybody's cup of tea. But for those who take to them?musicians...
Schadenfreude has always been one of humanity's least attractive-but most lucratively exploitable-qualities. Lately, though, in the field of popular music, delight in other people's anguish has reached new levels of callousness-and depressing commercial success...