Word: delight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strategy, and the pleasures of the flesh have marked this year's version of the Secret Santa tradition, as students scheme to delight their unwitting "Santees" with imaginative gift-giving...
Discussions of the allegedly urgent need to get the machines in the houses usually are informed by a sneaking delight at the ability to talk about condoms and sex under the guise of serious conversation. (Admit it. Condoms are funny.) This is perhaps the only positive aspect of AIDS, that it has encouraged more open and free discussion of such hitherto hushed-up matters as homosexuality...
...skill with which he did this might seem almost quaint. But in Demuth's day, the public atmosphere was, of course, very different, and he, like Marcel Duchamp and other artists in the avant- garde circle that formed around the collectors Louise and Walter Arensberg, took a special delight in sowing his work with sexual hints. The handlebar of a vaudeville trick rider's bicycle turns into a penis aimed at his crotch; sailors dance with girls in a cabaret but ogle one another; in some still lifes, the flowers and vegetables acquire a nudging suggestiveness. Sigmund Freud...
...hardly visit the great exhibition of English Gothic art, "The Age of Chivalry," which opened this month at the Royal Academy in London, without mixed feelings of delight, surfeit and loss. The first, obviously, because this is the first show to trace so large a part of England's cultural inheritance. It starts in 1216 with the enthronement of Henry III and ends with the death of the last Plantagenet, Richard II, in 1399, a span of nearly 200 years that brought Gothic art to England from France...
...London "The Age of Chivalry" evokes regret at how much English Gothic art has been lost to history, and delight at what survives...