Word: delight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...justify his updating, Kahn points Shakespeare's "Fantastic innovation," and asserts that production today should similarly "surprise, delight and astonish our audience." But Shakespeare was not a revolutionary. His plays impressed the Globe Theatre's audiences not because they were particularly avant-garde but simply because they generally were better than those written by anybody else. Kahn also states that one must be "true to the play," but it seems to me that, in this production, he has done quite the opposite...
...placed Tote machines in Madison Square Garden, they could fill the joint with suckers every night." He was getting at a basic truth about the fascination of gambling. But what clearly eluded him-and what Sam Toperoff conveys with love in this oddly winning novelistic memoir-is the peculiar delight, the exquisite angst that horses (and wagering on them) give a really dedicated race-goer...
...wife and children are O.K. Seated on a black vinyl banquette beneath the leaves of a plastic orange tree, he swills down a triple martini poured from a Boodles bottle and served in a pitcher. By then he may or may not be equal to the doubt ful delight of a tough country pate made with pistachio nuts...
...delight the literary hero of my youth is now recognized as a genius...
...tumbling torrents. As a professional, Cole rejoiced because it was also a landscape that-unlike the more familiar Alps and the more picturesque Italian ruins-was at the time undiscovered by artists. "No Tivolis, Ternis, Mont Blancs, hackneyed and worn by the daily pencils of hundreds," he wrote with delight, "but primeval forests and virgin lakes...