Word: delights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this best of all possible worlds. While revealing the failure of unbridled optimism, the cast of Candide displays much of the best singing and acting talents seen at Harvard in the past few years. Excellent staging, costumes, and sets contribute to this sterling production whose buoyancy and energy constantly delight the audience during its tightly-knit two hour performance...
First he looked at Greek A. It was an auspicious start "Dr. Lambros is a marvelous guide through the intricacies of this difficult language. He makes what could be a boring task an absolute delight...
...other that will make The Class such a hit in and out of Cambridge regardless of its often fantastical plots and awkward writing. Andrew Eliot writes in his diary about a classmate. I guess he just didn't know how to be happy. He adds--surely to the delight of any number of readers who knew it was coming--That thing the Harvard Boola boola...
...best and most comprehensive book on French culture, should have been written by an Oxford professor, Theodore Zeldin.) Braithwalie is a Gallophile as only an Englishman can be, revelling in the wine-tasting, the pharmacies, the road signs, the myriad facets of everyday, life with a delight unmediated by the ever-present chauvinism of the French: "The light over the Channel, for instance, looks quite different from the French side: clearer, yet more volatile. The sky is a theatre of possibilities. I'm not romanticising." The central chapter of the book, in which all the themes come together, is even...
Many of the reservists were well prepared for the two weeks of maneuvers. Most were of Hispanic origin, almost two-thirds speak Spanish, and many were Viet Nam veterans. Hondurans from Las Hormigas, a village near the Texans' temporary base (dubbed "the Alamo"), responded with surprise and delight when they heard the foreign soldiers speaking Spanish. "I was asked if we were in the Mexican army," Sergeant Raul Ortiz, 35, a Viet Nam veteran, laughingly told TIME Correspondent David S. Jackson. The men who had seen action in the war were excited by the prospect of a sham battle. "These...