We delight in every stage of development, from the first time they roll over to the first prom they attend, and beyond.
"We shouted yes", the writer Sylvia Lawson recalls her delight in discovering The Second Sex as a young housewife, immediately sharing her reading with friends.
The young Clara and the Nutcracker delight in the first snowflakes to hit their skin.
Why not, said Ms. Walker, who takes a subversive delight in tweaking Seventh Avenue.
An author and illustrator, Keats published "The Snowy Day," about a small boy's delight in his first snowstorm.
But, Professor Joskow notes, the franchisees didn't have to sign up with Chicken Delight in the first place.
He made little secret of his ambition, or of his delight in becoming First Minister, just as he could not conceal his sorrow when he gave up the post.
Audrey Hepburn, with an invaluable assist from Marni Nixon's singing voice, is a paradigm of delight in the first film; Maggie Smith, buried under layers of old-age makeup that occasionally evoke the mournful mask from the "Scream" franchise, is a bit less persuasive in the second.
(The Thom Browne-ish ensemble and green Converse high-tops, courtesy of the costume consultant Toni-Leslie James, are a cute touch.) Mr. Bobb and Ms. Baldwin share their delight in the first ticklings of love in the prancing duet "Something Sort of Grandish," just one of several songs in which you hear Harburg's penchant for merry wordplay at its giddy best.
Maybe attributing a divide-and-conquer motive was unfair in a country that treats everything like a horse race, but there had to be some reason why the press did not consider what I witnessed on the road – delight in two "firsts" with similar purpose – worth reporting.
But now economists like Mr Frank and Mr Kahneman delight in second-guessing such choices, citing the evidence of their hedonimeters.Have funWhat sumptuary advice do they offer?
