Word: delights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spontaneous and sensitive painting of David Merrick is a delight. SERENE FELDMAN SUSAN TAMMANY Syracuse...
...would bet on the last. This anthology is one long, heavy, awkwardly put-together Curiosity. Admittedly, reading the lyrics of young T.S. Eliot '10--already slightly bored, effete, with allusions to classical figures and scenes--is a "critic's delight," as Culler claims. The careful reader will find parallels with "Prufrock" in "Spleen," written when Eliot...
...what the job called for, as well, of course, as her administrative skill. "The work is drudgery, but every freshman class is a new freshman class," Mrs. Powell says. "Any minute a freshman may come in . . . he may want to drop a course, but he may be a delight. I guess that's what keeps me here...
...public, the Senate has lost most of the entertainment value which it had in an earlier day of fewer diversions, when people followed the varied Senate debate with delight and wonder. It also has lost some of its former function as the country's educator in public issues: such education comes from many other sources now. But it retains considerable influence on national opinion, and Professor James MacGregor Burns, for one, believes that this influence is more important than its old formal power in the checks-and-balances system. "What the President wants today is the advice and consent...
...explication, the facts and spice are secondary to the worries. There is almost delight in discussing the Corps' problems, mistakes, failures, in talking of the loneliness, boredom and frustration that are the primary health problems of Volunteers abroad. There is, of course, a catch. What follows is a description of what the Corps is doing to change itself...