Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...East wing. It is hospitable, welcoming both to art and to its audience, and condescending to no one. Neither snooty nor tackily populist, it is a lesson in civic good manners. "The aim of architecture is to build well. Well-building hath three conditions: commodity, firm ness and delight." Sir Henry Wotton's maxim is as true today as it was 350 years ago, and Pei's building reminds us that the sense of ethical and aesthetic responsibility from which it issued is not, after all, quite dead...
...National Gallery of Art is sheer delight. Thanks to Mr. Mellon for such a magnificent gift, and thanks to TIME for telling others about...
...active Republicans see so much good second-and third-level talent that their delight soon dissolves into worry that these able politicians will devour each other or refuse to join such a melee. To add to their misery, the Republicans hear their favorite political scripture about balanced budgets, the Soviet menace and Big Government being preached from Democratic pulpits...
...here returning to the screen after an eight-year absence, makes the chic middle-aged murder suspect an aloof yet touching figure: she always retains her bourgeois hauteur, but we see the pain of her predict ament in the slight flickering of her large blue eyes. Reggiani is a delight. With his hound-dog face and wry manner, he is every bit as amusingly world-weary as Happy New Year's hero, Lino Ven tura. No wonder all the other characters openly adore...
...history of automotive design, the Italians have contributed passion; the French, intellectuality; the English, quiet luxury; and the Germans and Americans, engineering. To the delight of shahs and stars and the merely rich, the new replicars combine all these elements, making even a run to the deli a royal procession...