Word: delights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. The APA company rubs too much 20th century balm and too little 18th century acid into the pores of this high-styled Sheridan comedy. But it does have one incomparable delight: Rosemary Harris as Lady Teazle, the country kitten who comes to London town, takes the burr out of her purr and meows down the city minxes...
They roared with delight as the hometown boys avenged Harvard's 19-13 victory last year, and didn't seem to mind a dull, slow meet...
...SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. The APA company rubs too much 20th century balm and too little 18th century acid into the pores of this high-styled Sheridan play. It does have one delight: Rosemary Harris as Lady Teazle, the country kitten who comes to London town, takes the burr out of her purr and meows down the city minxes...
German culture, too, is vital, promising and socially oriented. While taking delight in piercing the pretensions of German materialism, Günter Grass (The Tin Drum), Heinrich Böll (The Clown) and Uwe Johnson (Speculations About Jakob) have dealt perhaps more effectively than any other writers with the peculiar poignancy of the human condition in the postwar world. Karlheinz Stockhausen and Hans Werner Henze have emerged as composers of worldwide status, and a younger group of West Berliners is experimenting with "post-pop realism." Just about every West German town of any size has opera and repertory theater. And for those...
...views on the West are variable. In Colosseum, he indulges in a prudish flight of fancy; as the poet broods on the ancient games, he also rather absurdly sees capitalist corruption symbolized amid the Roman ruins by "powdered pederasts," "urinating whores," and a "society lady" swooning with delight as a gigolo pulls off her nylon panties. Then again, he takes a good-humored dig at the Western preoccupation with spy movies and has a ball with a Bond take-off entitled Impressions of the Western Cinema. He envisons a future state of espionage technology when even roses are bugged...