Word: delights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...postcards picture it, the Atlantic Ocean off Miami is a land lubber's delight where only the antics of frolicking porpoises disturb the serenity of the Gulf Stream. But there are days, and plenty of them, when the east wind rises and turns the 160-mile stretch between Miami and Nassau into one of the meanest, choppiest patches of water anywhere. Then small-craft warnings go up, and cautious skippers stick to sailing olives in a cozy yacht-club...
...great romantic literature of the piano he brought all the devouring delight that in youth he had lavished on la vie Parisienne. The years since have only whetted his appetite. "The performer's life is a gift from heaven," says Rubinstein. "Making music is pure joy, like making love...
...done from the beginning, held hands from the moment the lights went down. The play was nothing much, a revival of an old Broadway comedy based on the tried and true formula of boy - meets - girl - boy - loses - girl - boy - gets - girl. But it was a delight to see how earnestly the youngsters threw themselves into their parts...
...hunter's delight, Costa Rica is just as much an angler's paradise. Trusting, and innocently ignorant of flies with hooks, big rainbow trout swim serenely in never-fished mountain streams. Rivers churn with exotic fresh-water game-fish that cannot even be found in angling encyclopedias. There is the bobo, or bubblefish, an elusive silverside that dwells in the rapids and attacks a wet fly like something good to eat. There is the machaca, an acrobatic inhabitant of still-water pockets that looks like a cross between a herring and a white shad and often leaps itself...
Christina, who peeks from behind the covers to discover Mother with lover, is confused. How can God be love when love is such a down-to-the-floor proposition? No proverb fits the situation, but she learns, under Claude's tulelege, that being too polite prevents much delight. While modesty remains the best policy, the result is the "downfall of true love and the upsurge...