Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...young innocents set wandering in his books-the Oliver Twists and David Copperfields and Pips. Through them, his evocations of childhood and the child's point of view are still unmatched for sympathy and immediacy, as well as for their perceptive mixture of terror and delight...
Scientists seem to find the creatures fascinating. "I can hardly walk into an observatory anywhere without seeing one on the wall," Menzel said. Science-fiction fans also delight in the martians, and Galaxy Magazine published a large color section of them last year...
...expected, an attempt may be made to win a compromise on an amount lower than $290 million. Many airline executives will not be unhappy if the plan dies. Their industry is sagging and the prospect of carrying deficit-producing passengers in more expensive planes does not fill them with delight...
Last week, much to the delight of the Taosenos, the Senate voted 70 to 12 to give 48,000 acres back to the tribe. Held in trust by the Secretary of the Interior, the land will be preserved as wilderness and used by the Indians mainly for religious ceremonies, hunting and maintaining livestock...
...Master of Mary of Burgundy, A Book of Hours. Edited by J.J.G. Alexander. Unpaged. Braziller. $25. Like the slender archways in the works of early Flemish masters, this tiny, devotional book opens on small worlds of piety and delight. It is a facsimile re-creation of a Book of Hours made, circa 1478, for the daughter of the last great Duke of Burgundy by a master miniaturist. His biblical figures, mock tourneys, glimpsed landscapes and rich borders decked with acanthus rolls, peacock feathers, shells and fabulous birds and beasts brilliantly profit from the example of the Limbourg brothers...