Word: relishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everyone the solidity, the evenness of tone, the impeccable harmonies which can happen when a group has been together for more than 50 years. They sang soulful hymnals that could convert the heathens and which made my spirit rise up from what seemed like an eternity of drought to relish in the harmonies they produced. These men tell it like it is. They believe in what they sing about, and it comes across here like only the Word...
What gives his first book an added dimension, though, is that Verghese is an Indian Christian, born and raised in Ethiopia, and arrived in the U.S. at almost exactly the same time as the foreign disease. He brings to his new home all the attentive relish of an affectionate visitor, savoring the local talk of "horny pills" and "smiling mighty Jesus" and rolling on his tongue the names of the towns where he works: "Mountain City, Tazewell, Grundy, Norton, Pound...
...full of jokes; when a stuffy Disability administrator asks, "What state were you born in?" Simon answers, "Infancy." He reads Zola. He cooks. He fixes cars. He defends the Constitution brilliantly in a classroom showdown with Money's thesis advisor, that sneering elitist bastard Professor Pitkannan (played with relish by Gore Vidal) who finds the document vulgar and crude...
...probably wasn't the only one whose lips puckered on hearing the news of Justice Harry J. Blackmun's impending retirement. I mean no disrespect to the justice (nothing excessive, anyhow)--I simply relish the possibility of witnessing yet again that greatest of American political spectacles: the Senate confirmation hearings...
Still, he seemed to relish his newfound statusas a national champion as something special...