Word: delights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short pronunciations of the five vowels (the a as in at, e as in pet), then some consonant sounds (p, t, s) to provide the components for a lot of words. Using what he calls "visual dictation," tapping the charts with a pointer, Dr. Gattegno lets students discover with delight that strings of sounds make words, then whole sentences, including such swinging examples as "Pat met on a mat a man as fat as Tim." The decipherability of language thus established, the drill moves on to tougher orthography: weigh, height, eye, diaphragm, for example...
Democratic in its savagery, the film takes equal delight in nailing down its hero. Aping his betters, he finally, ironically, proves himself inferior-faster, bolder, by necessity more resourceful, but at bottom just a greedy, churlish Jimmy who yearns with might and main to be known as James...
...most infuriatingly quotable book of the year. While some of it is cocktail-party rant, most is meant seriously. Fiedler, for 20 years professor of English and now chairman of the department at Montana State University, is convinced that fiction and poetry really matter, not just because they delight or possibly instruct the reader, but because they are the symptoms with which to psychoanalyze a civilization. And in his exhaustive survey of novelists from the '30s to the present day, Fiedler concludes that the novel is probably dying and society is very sick...
Even in these one-worldly days of cultural colonies and jet-settlers, most U.S. authors trying to depict European sophistication seem indefinably out of their league, like children sashaying around in grown-up shoes. Not so David Stacton, who here recounts with relish and delight a nostalgic encounter between two Old World celebrities at an international film festival. Leading man is Charlie, a writer rich but long past his prime, an exquisite wit, mildly fond of young men, though he has been married four times. With his latest boy in tow, Charlie encounters an old cinemactress friend...
...decrying the dangers of prosperity than extolling the beauty of their women, and politicians, beginning with Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and Opposition Leader Willy Brandt, are much too stuffy to allow themselves to comment publicly on such matters. But the Fräuleinwunder is there for all to see with delight. George McGhee, 52, the Texas oilman who has been U.S. Ambassador to Bonn for the past year, says carefully: "Of course, I am a married man. But even by Texas standards I don't see how any American can fail to observe and be impressed at the charm...