Word: delights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Simply reproduce the Grecian urn he took delight...
...People belong to one of our best generations. They sometimes puzzle me, occasionally annoy me, always interest, intrigue, delight...
...alone that can delight me. His graceful eye it doth invite me, And when his tender arms enfold me, The blackest night doth turn today. Tame Coyotes. Beers's grandfather taught him to play the psaltery, but his real ambition was to be a concert violinist. He played with the St. Louis Philharmonic at 15, later graduated from Northwestern University as a music major. Only then, noting among other things that he was one of the world's few psaltery players, did he realize "that my inherited knowledge of folklore was something extraordinary. Suddenly I felt an obligation...
...undeniably, the bond that binds the members is their common love of opera. They take advantage of the club's seats to hear a favorite opera several times a season, bone up on the club's collection of librettos, delight in the chance to march around the stage in costumes as extras. Says Snyder: "Scratch the surface of an opera-club member, and underneath you'll usually find a former choirboy like me who never got over the singing virus...
...since Castro announced that any Cubans who wanted to could leave his little paradise lost, some 47,000 have flown to freedom on the twice-daily Havana-to-Miami shuttle. But when it came to some 900 persons holding dual Cuban-American citizenship, Castro kept stalling. He seemed to delight in preventing the State Department from helping people who were, at least nominally, U.S. citizens...