Word: delights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second period, Jim Saltonstall lofted a corner kick to the outside edge of the penalty area. There Kydes calmly waited, then went into a sidesaddle cartwheel. His right foot met the ball in mid-air and slammed it on a bounce into the goal, to the spectators' immense delight...
...Illinois, Hubert Humphrey inadvertently underscored the generational gap between the Democratic and Republican styles in the senatorial campaign when he said, "The Senate without Paul Douglas would be like show business without Jimmy Durante"?who, at 73, now uses Old Man Time as a theme song. To the delight of Republican audiences in Wilkes-Barre and Philadelphia, outgoing Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton's wife Mary puffed plump cigars, promised to come back and finish the smoke?"regardless of how green I turn"?if they improved their 1962 vote totals. (They didn...
...seriocomic man-woman fencing between Stapleton and Guardino is the special delight of the evening. Here are two people ravenously hungry for each other and yet honestly anxious to cherish each other's dignity. In his most direct play, Williams makes a sensuous sonnet out of his central love symbol: "The rose is the heart of the world...
Causing special gasps of delight on opening night was Richard Lippold's 90-ft.-long sculpture. Titled Gemini II, it swoops through the air like hammocks of magical cobwebs, belying by its tension the fact that the wire strands support 2,300 slender aluminum bars...
This unhappy process, says Eble, begins with parents who fail to realize that "learning begins in delight and flourishes in wonder," and who fret so much over their children's education that they discourage a sense of curiosity about knowledge. Everyone jokes about pupils who fall in love with their teachers; but, to Eble, "it is no joke-it is the way of learning. That is the advantage of live teachers and live books. They can be fallen in love with, possessed...