Word: delights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tigar plays the warrior's neighbor--an old fishwife of a man--and he is in his element. His senile craftiness is equalled only by his engagingly simpleminded delight in the machinations of others...
Kaye's special quality is a generosity of spirit that is contagious. He plainly likes people, and even when he mimes their foibles, he does it with delight and affection. His jokes demand no butt and draw no blood; he neither (like Benny) lets himself play the fool, nor (like Hope) does he mock the foolishness of others...
...Ludwig von Shtickfritz; no one but the D'Oyly Carte's Martyn Green has ever pattered half so perfectly. Though he laces his act with impossible puns and games ("That's the way De Gaulle bounces," or "Under the spreading psychiatry"), nothing diminishes the pure delight of his tour in a thousand dialects through the world's locker rooms, or his Begin the Beguine as sung by a matinee idol who can do everything but carry a tune. His routines include six chimpanzees and ten singers (the humans are taller), but mostly Kaye depends...
...MORGAN 4/4 MARK V ROADSTER is a new version of a classic classic. It will delight the old-fashioned sports-car lover who deplores the passing of the old look and feel of riding a torpedo with wheels attached. Price...
...themselves. Many politicians simply love to run for office, and pine away between times; office has just as much utility to them as does the brass ring to the kid on a merry-go-round: you can (hopefully) get another ride around. Most of these Senators take genuine delight in running for office; only Nelson, who had campaigned for four straight years, admits he was tired of the whole business. Many actions are taken with a view to the eventual reckoning. "Though I vote with national considerations in mind," says McIntyre blandly, "I'd better be prepared to campaign...