Word: delights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taught an unforgettable course on the American Romantics. To some students he himself looked like one of the grand Romantic figures he spoke of in the lectures, an Ahab at times, and even an Ishmael. Those brawling sentences, the brooding manner, the great, obscene chuckles whose delight it was impossible not to share, all were touched with something superhuman, something demonic. He lived intensely, self-destructively even. Those who loved him wanted him to take things easier, to save himself, to bank the fires; but with sorrow and awe we see that giants were not meant to live that...
...other team they might average 30 points a game. But in Boston they have to share the wealth: hardly a game goes by without half a dozen Celtics scoring in double figures. Towering (6 ft. 10 in.) Center Bill Russell is a moody defensive genius who takes special delight in letting an opposing forward get off his shot-then sticking up one great hand, ramming the ball back down the shooter's throat...
...Dimension is the highpoint of Dr. McLandress' career, Mr. Epernay's account of the McL-C's of various prominent people is the highpoint of The McLandress Dimension. He seems to delight in sly jabs at the greats as he records these sophisticated, psychological VIP-coated gossip columns...
...thesis that was nearly six hundred pages long (don't put that down as if I were proud of it"). Dealing with "royal themes--the characterization of moral ideas on the stage," the thesis was for Seltzer a "kind of catharsis," and he now looks back with Joycean delight at the comment of his roommate who suggested that "I put the thing on casters...
...There is no reason why we should not talk of this. One of the things I like about America is the crazy contradictoriness of American life. It is sheer delight for me to think of all those superpatriots in Texas and California, who would find Senator Javits anathema-andnot only because he is a liberal-whooping it up for dear old Barry. And it is a sheer delight to think of the paradox of Catholics deciding that Kennedy is too radical for them, and rooting for Goldwater, while Jews will be unmoved by Goldwater's Jewish ties and will...