Word: reveler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When an unknown director turns out a suspense melodrama as dreary and unconvincing as this, moviegoers revel in the thought of what it might have been if Hitchcock had done it. It is disconcerting to come away from Mamie feeling precisely the same...
Each of the three has discovered in the trio a reward beyond mere music. "There are many miraculous little things that happen during each performance," says Rose. "We play to one another in a sort of musical conversation." Says Stern: "Music is something to revel in - and when we play together we revel. I'm so proud of this trio I want to shout it from the housetops...
...Instead of delighting in life, as did Grandma Moses, Andrew Wyeth seems to revel in a dolorous view. His work depicts death, decay, hopelessness and despair. Is this "what America is like...
...perfect manifestation." Most of Santayana's acquaintances failed to evolve, and this book is a record of their defeats: portraits etched in acid and affection. There was the romantic poet Lionel Johnson, "a spiritual waif who couldn't endure the truth, but demanded a lovelier fiction to revel in, invented, or accepted it, and called it revelation." There was the "brilliant genius" Bertrand Russell, who suffered from "a microscopic intensity that narrowed each of his insights, lost the substance in the visible image, the sense in the logic of the words, and made him, though he might...
...Central University stands, in many senses, as representative of the nation it purports to teach. The school's political fanaticism (the Copei Social Christians and Accion Democratica are as active as the Communists) is equalled only by the spirit of the country as a whole. Extremists, it is true, revel in the University City's unusual degree of freedom but extremism is a problem endemic to the Venezuelan situation...