Word: delights
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Native Israelis take almost as much delight as the tourists do in the contrasts and paradoxes of their extraordinary homeland. Lod was a fortified city in the days of Joshua; its motto is taken from the prophet Jeremiah: "Thy children shall come again to their own border." At the site of this ancient citadel, giant jetliners today disgorge joyous refugees from the Soviet Union, the source of the latest aliyah. Horse-drawn carts rattle through the streets of nearby Ramla, while Phantom and Skyhawk jets scream overhead. Beneath the Qumran caves, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, picnickers romp...
With fine acting and voices, brisk pace, Gondoliers will delight all psychologies. And for the lines above traced, To W.S. Gilbert, apologies...
...long dance at the end of the first part. In this production, the dance, like everything else, is excellent. Eleanor Lindsay, the director, has Marie Kohler rise from her illness slowly, turning first to Bernard Holmberg, the Narrator, and only at his direction, timidly, and then with increasing delight, to the Soldier, Terry Emerson. Kohler can dominate the stage just by putting on her cloak; and Holmberg and Pope Brock as the Devil are virtually as good as the other...
This spring's big choral offering under John Adams' baton is the Brahms Requiem. One of the great settings of the mass for the dead, those who delight in large-scale sonorities will enjoy the Brahms...
Other newspapers preferred to run stories that listed the criminal backgrounds of AIM leaders Russell C. Means and Dennis J. Banks, and took particular delight in reporting drunken driving charges. The stories, however, neglected to mention that Indians often are arrested even though they have done nothing wrong...