Word: delights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Baines Genes. The boy was naturally a mother's delight. "Always generous," Rebekah writes, "he showered his mother with gifts, pebbles and flowers." Like Gautama Buddha or the youthful George Washington, Lyndon Johnson "had a passion for truthfulness." When a relative insisted that "all children tell stories," Mrs. Johnson was "shocked and indignant." "My boy," she declared, "never tells...
Panning, of course, is by far the easier of the critic's two tasks. But when Gottfried finds something to praise, he can be almost lyrical in his delight. About last season's Fiddler on the Roof, he wrote: "To see Zero Mostel dance is to see an angel in underwear. There is nobody else in the world who can shake a belly slowly...
...other hand, the real Abram Tertz could well be that breed of writer known in the underground as an "internal émigré"-a man who produces only for the drawer or for a select circle of trusted intimates who can read his hand-copied manuscripts in secrecy and delight...
...some sociologists define sociology as "the study of the behavior of human beings with, to, and for one another, and of the resulting arrangement of relationships and activities which we call human society." Now something new is happening with, to, and for sociologists. They are finding to their delight that their work is in great demand in today's self-conscious society. Their academic prestige is rising, and colleges are eager to pay a high price for their talents as well as their semantics...
Britain trails only the U.S. and Canada as a gasoline consumer, a fact that should delight its 13 major oil companies. It does not. In trying to set up the new service stations they need in order to compete, the companies are running into soaring land prices, a tangle of zoning laws and the threat of government control over the number of stations they can own. Dozens of small independents have sprung up to plague the majors, buying gas cheaply from Continental refineries and then undercutting prices. Britain has been witnessing a cutthroat gas war for months, and last week...