Word: delights
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...right to be soft and fragile; the luxury of having doors opened, packages carried, cigarettes lighted, chairs pulled out for us; the pleasure of being able to cry openly when we feel like it; the joy of giving everything of ourselves to the men we love; and (sometimes) the delight of receiving great loot like diamond necklaces, ruby bracelets and mink coats...
...look last week by paring the prime interest rate that they charge blue-chip customers. As expected (TIME, Sept. 28), moneymen around the country followed the lead of First Pennsylvania Banking & Trust Co. in trimming the rate from 8% to 7½% . The move could only delight election-bound Republican candidates because a drop in the prime can be cited as a sure sign that the worst of the tight-money squeeze is over...
Clubby and conservative, Swiss bankers have been increasingly irked by the aggressive marketing methods of U.S. banks that have flocked to their country and heavily tapped the local money market. Thus Swiss moneymen reacted with scarcely concealed delight when the Basel subsidiary of the United California Bank suspended operations, a victim of the costliest banking scandal in Swiss history. The losses of the U.S. affiliate so far have been estimated at $40 million. But as state-appointed auditors worked to unravel the tangled affair last week, there was every possibility that the deficit could grow even larger...
...such rural satisfactions. But for all the eutrophication of lakes, the alarms about mercury in livestock and DDT on the vine, the land is still capable of yielding an astonishing bounty. For those whose food does not come entirely from cans and packages, it also provides a deep seasonal delight of harvest...
...Plimpton's delight, the current college generation finds him a particularly sympathetic figure. He is in the Establishment, yet out of it; he has dipped into a dozen different fields, yet is tied to none. He possesses both passionate interest and a kind of cool grace. "He is their ultimate vision of the writer," says Polish-born Novelist Jerzy Kosinski (The Painted Bird), one of George's countless literary friends. "To them he comes closest to the American conception of what a writer ought to be-that he should not just live off the imagination, like Proust...