Word: delight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former party leader in the industrial city of Sverdlovsk, Yeltsin was brought to Moscow by Gorbachev in 1985 and quickly established himself as a supersalesman of perestroika (restructuring), Gorbachev's plan to modernize the Soviet economy. To the delight of ordinary Muscovites, he became a one-man consumer-protection agency, stopping off in stores to complain about poor- quality merchandise, calling Moscow's famed subway unsafe and criticizing state contractors for falling behind in constructing new housing. But his blunt language and grandstanding earned him enemies. Explains Marshall Goldman, associate director of Harvard's Russian Research Center: "People came...
...whether a car was broken into, or did its owner set off the alarm by accident, and then lay it to rest. With human screams, the question is more complicated, since screams are not mechanical or automatic. Did you hear that, Harry? What could it be? A scream of delight, of fright? Hilarity, Harry? Do you think that someone is laughing too hard? Could it be hysteria, madness? Or ; is it a scream of blue murder? What should we do, Harry, if it is a scream of blue murder? And where is it coming from, anyway? Could you tell...
...would all agree that Steve is the genius of the group, the one who keeps on taking the musical theater to new places." What Into the Woods does, gloriously, is make the case for what musicals might be, blending innovation and old-fashioned storytelling into an elixir of delight. It makes audiences think of Freud and Jung, of dark psychological thickets and sudden clearings of enlightenment, even as they roar with laughter. Its basic insight, plainly influenced by the revisionist scholarship of Bruno Bettelheim, is that at heart, most fairy tales are about the loving yet embattled relationship between parents...
...panic was gone, but not the sense of helplessness. Like survivors of a natural disaster, Wall Streeters swung in a half-rational pendulum of despair and delight last week. Ready for a fresh quake in any direction, investors searched for definite portents in every new development in the U.S. dollar, interest rates and the budget deficit. But if the market was capable of a one- day, 508-point drop on Black Monday, Oct. 19, who could say what it might do next? Some seers thought they knew, yet their conclusions were as contradictory as they were passionate...
During the first days in the Vatican's modern, tiered synod hall, the status of women emerged as a pressing topic. It was addressed in speeches by no fewer than 32 participants, much to the delight of the U.S. delegation, which had made the issue a priority. Not everyone was so pleased. When Ireland's Tomas Cardinal O Fiaich stated that the women's issue is "no longer an American aberration," another bishop was heard to grumble, "Yeah, it's now a worldwide aberration...