Word: delights
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...earlier works is lacking, in a book about losing control and ambition, that may be just the point. Anyone wondering whether Updike has lost any of his formidable potency may rest assured that indeed he has not. On the contrary, like the lightweight plastic snow shovels which so delight Ben Turnbull, Updike is one thing which persuades us that "the world does not only get worse."Photo courtesy of KnoJOHN UPDIKE '54 has done it again: luxuriant lyricism and good, clean fun with more than a trace of smut...
Shields' lapidary, natural prose and her gift for storytelling make the first fourteen chapters a delight to read (unfortunately the last, longest chapter, "Larry's Party," is an anticlimax). Writing dialogue is obviously easy for Shields. Sometimes it is difficult to believe that you don't know her characters personally--the people you know speak the way she writes...
...delight to teach a course I never could have taken on this campus or any other when I was an undergrad," Pellegrini says...
...color, Jews and Muslims, and there was certainly no tolerance of differences in sexual orientation! Yet, here I was, in a meeting of the student government, listening to folks (clearly possessing good intentions)talk about John Harvard as the mascot par excellence. I was stunned as they reported their delight at the administration's favorable response...
Fans of Comedy Central can delight in yet another unfortunate death for parkaboy Kenny in "The Spirit of Christmas," surely the highlight of the festival and somewhat of a heavyweight amongst its cruder cousins...