Word: delights
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...those who delight in "where are they now" stories or who wonder about the "mood" of many of the people who really started what is now referred to as "the new politics." Hanover was the place...
...debuts, showed a vocal reach and richness that exceeded nearly anybody's gasp. In Mira, O Norma, closing Act III, the two together floated along like two strings of a violin being stroked by the same bow. The way their voices blended and interwove produced moments of sheer delight-moments to justify opera and fleetingly suggest that the shaky conspiracy called civilization may actually be worth all the trouble...
Restaged for Joffrey by David Blair (who danced the original Captain Belaye in London), the work produces unabashed delight in the mutiny, wholesale though ladylike transvestism, and twin marriages that follow, courtesy of W.S. Gilbert. As Poll, Charthel Arthur falls in love more energetically than anyone m recent memory. As dashing Captain Belaye, the man whose Apollonian suavity, superb condescension and sheer sexiness cause all the trouble, Edward Verso turns a comic role into a major characterization. One rude criterion for establishing a ballet's worth is the impulse to dance that it stirs in an average member...
John Keats, it is said, used to take pepper just for the delight given by a freshwater chaser. Perhaps with a similar contrast in mind Jeffrey treats audiences to Pineapple Poll, a rarely seen romp created 19 years ago by John Cranko, now the director of the Stuttgart Ballet, to music of Sir Arthur Sullivan. Cheerful girls in peppermint stripes and ruffled panties collide with beerful British tars from H.M.S. Hot Cross Bun. Pineapple Poll herself appears and falls helplessly in love with Captain Belaye, an officer who combines the best qualities of Ralph Rackstraw, Captain Corcoran and Sir Joseph...
...Considering my attitudes toward the Harvard bureaucracy, a lost file is something I delight in," Terrence W. Flanagan '70, one of the fellowship candidates, said yesterday...