Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maryinsky Theater in old St. Petersburg, Russia, Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky thought that Nutcracker was much inferior to his The Sleeping Beauty. "Yes, the old fellow is getting worn out," he concluded. Tchaikovsky was one of music's great pessimists. The score is an indestructible delight. Over the years Nutcracker has probably played to more children, parents and lovers of both dance and make-believe than any other ballet in history...
...slacks and a white ribbed sweater, stood over the sink in the nearby kitchen, peeling some squash for dinner. Several times she stepped back inside the den just to hear the names. Amy Carter burst into her father's study at one point, and Carter, with great delight, showed her his new white speaker telephone that plugged directly into the White House switchboard. She immediately called a neighborhood friend on the phone, and Carter and Jordan watched with amusement as she pretended she needed a school assignment...
There are G&S aficionados who delight in humming Sullivan's airs and are apt to break into a patter song at a moment's notice, or without it. Then there are those whose exposure to the masters of Victorian operetta has been painfully shoddy. The current G&S production of The Pirates of Penzance is bound to convince both groups that it is, it is after all a glorious thing to be a Gilbert and Sullivan...
After listening carefully to tape recordings, 40 men and women students at West Virginia University tried to estimate the height and weight of each of the 30 speakers on the tape. To the delight of Norman J. Lass, who ran the experiment as chairman of the university's speech pathology and audiology department, those estimates were surprisingly accurate. On the average, the volunteer students came within 3½ lbs. and 1 in. of picking the weight and height of the speakers-far closer than they would have achieved with random guesses. "Apparently," says Lass, "there are adequate perceptual clues...
After three losses in exhibition games, the Buccaneers defeated the Atlanta Falcons, 17 to 3. "Ho-hum," McKay said, in controlled delight. "Another dynasty." Then came this championship season. Tampa lost consecutively to Houston, San Diego, Buffalo, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Seattle (another expansion team), Miami and Kansas City. When I caught up with them in Denver their record was 0 and 8, but their spirits were stained with hope. The Denver Broncos had been playing poorly, and a Denver physician who played football told me, "We need a new quarterback and a new coach." That complaint classically signifies trouble, and trouble...