Word: relishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...artists who explored the same subject matter as Degas or who were greatly influenced by the "reluctant impressionist." Prints by Toulous-Lautrec, Signac, Vuillard and Daumier are organized around the themes of women, nightlife, the circus--subjects which have rarely if ever been treated with as much insight and relish as in the works of these artists. "Paris Observed" is a brief but memorable introduction to mid-18th-century Paris and Parisians as seen by Daumier...
...Barber's view, Nixon's greatest fear was "public exposure of personal inadequacy." While he often proclaimed his relish for combat, he seemed to dread it at the same time; it was as if defeat would mean, as it did for the King of the Wood in Sir James Frazer's The Golden Bough, a sentence of death. It was his efforts to prevent the exposure of his Administration's failings that ultimately undid...
...Rodino flatly refused to go along, and Albert gave way. (Later, the Speaker was to bless that decision: if a special committee had been set up, the Republicans could have stacked their membership with die-hard Nixon supporters, thus eliminating any chance of a bipartisan vote.) Rodino did not relish the job of conducting the impeachment inquiry. He has had a friendly relationship with Nixon over the years and, he says, "I'd rather find the good in people than...
...With relish, Morse did as he was instructed, and won. F.D.R. later reminded him: "Well, it worked, didn...
...Serpent. The result is a send-up that anyone who has ever groaned through an overfootnoted attempt at scholarship will relish. Of a Mexican bartender Finney writes: "His forefathers came to this country a little after Hernando Cortez. His foremothers, Mayans, Toltecs, and Aztecs, were already here." A child devoured by a sea serpent is disposed of in an equally deadpan manner: "For seven years he was a diner; then for a few minutes he was a dinner. Ultimately he was incorporated into the cell structure of the sea serpent, a distinction he did not enjoy." Horses are "anachronisms less...