Word: delight
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...evening is a headlong delight, and a special exhilaration arises from Shaw's gift for wittily unlocking treasures of the mind with the sly, sensitive touch of a safecracker...
Fourteen years and four or five version later, I've learned that Charlie Brown is no work of art, but it still manages to instruct and delight about as well as any show of its kind. One of the children who sat cross-legged in front of the first row in the South House dining hall confirmed its didactic capabilities last Saturday night. He asked me who Socrates was, obviously not understanding an allusion Linus made when he tells Lucy to know herself. There is no doubt, however, that this youngster could relate to the abandon with which Linus sucked...
...Viet Nam lesson, that it's easier to go into those countries than it is to get out. They will find out, just as the U.S. did, how amazingly easy it is for a little country to swallow a military machine." Says a Pentagon officer with undisguised delight: "I think it's great. It tickles me to death...
...Viet Nam lesson, that it's easier to go into those countries than it is to get out. They will find out, just as the U.S. did, how amazingly easy it is for a little country to swallow a military machine." Says a Pentagon officer with undisguised delight: "I think it's great. It tickles me to death...
...news may first delight, then bewilder inflation-weary Americans, whose stack of unpaid bills grows every time the mailman calls. According to a study by the Union Bank of Switzerland, citizens in big U.S. cities are substantially better off in terms of what they can actually buy with their wages and salaries than people with similar jobs in metropolises in other countries...