Word: delights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steps he lumbered, over to a red dais, and to the first crack of a 21-gun salute, France's towering (6 ft. 4 in.) President leaned low and bussed 5-ft. 9-in. President Adolfo López Mateos on both cheeks. The crowd roared its delight...
Brahms' Symphony No. 1, on the other hand, reveals a new delight every time it is played. This time, I was particularly struck by the alternation between E major and E minor at the beginning of the second movement. The apparent indecision creates a delicious tension which is resolved into E major only when the oboe enters with its lyric solo. Shostakovich never tried such subtleties...
...Fantasticks is a light delight, sweet enough for the softest tooth in Cambridge. The musical is generally described as whimsy, but it is more than that: it is willful whimsy, the tale of two young lovers in the silly season of spring, and then in the sober season of cynicism. Both moods are deliciously portrayed by seven actors and one actress in the Adams House Drama Society production of The Fantasticks, which began its two weekend run last night...
...with opera glasses in her Silver Spring, Md., apartment, spots sparrows, cardinals and titmice flitting among ten feeding stations and birdhouses. She sets out raisins, notes that "the mockingbird always takes two, four, never an odd number." Henry Cabot Lodge likes to walk in the Saigon zoo. With surprising delight, he tells how he once strolled too close to a tiger cage and the big cat sprayed him with urine. "The Vietnamese," he says, "tell me it's great good luck to have something like that happen...
...built in Belvidere, III., will employ up to 5,000, and General Motors' new plant at Fremont, Calif., has places for 4,100. These projects will mean new orders and more jobs in such industries as machine tools, building equipment, office equipment, steel, glass and paint. To the delight of construction contractors, some firms are also brushing up their corporate images and increasing the comforts of their employees by investing in attractive new headquarters, such as Michigan Consolidated Gas Co.'s $20 million structure, designed by Architect Minoru Yamasaki...