Word: enjoyable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Teas don't generally do this very well," Mrs. Emerson remarked. "I often think that people bring too many cookies and not enough else with them. I prefer to give dinners. By six o'clock working wives can relax and enjoy themselves, the groups are smaller, and we have time to really talk. Teas are too large and too anonymous. One time, a newcomer at a tea came over to me and asked me if there was anyone I would like to meet. I was really very delighted...
...island off the coast of Maine. The first family is Back Bay Boston, gone to shirtsleeves; the second family is Upstate New York, rolling in revenue. The second family pays room and board to the first family, which is too poor to refuse the money but too proud to enjoy taking...
With 90 offices, the building will provide space for the staffs of Romance Languages, Germanic Languages, Slavic, History and Literature, Comp Lit, Classics, and Public Speaking (housed in the "attic"). With these numerous offices, the departments will have expanded facilities that will soon allow even the junior members to enjoy private rooms. Specifically-constructed Finnish furniture adorns seminar rooms, a modern library occupies the new mezzanine floor, and the lecture hall--when it loses its canvas protective covering--will have great beauty. "President Pusey gave us one directive," Levin comments, "Get a good-looking lecture room...
...other cities. As they leave the tax base shrinks, and the city is forced to increase the tax rate for those who remain. And Boston faces other, secondary problems too: public transportation, inadequate parking, the "abatement racket," and juvenile delinquency, to name just a few. As the suburbs enjoy booms in homes, stores, and factories, the "core city" is decaying...
Critics of great note and little restraint have called Pather Panchali "great art" and a "universal experience," these terms being in great vogue at the present time, and very easy to come by. Thus those who want to see "great art" and have "universal experiences" will enjoy Pather Panchali no end. Those who wish to be entertained, however, should be warned that Pather Panchali, while often beautiful, may require more patience than they are willing to muster...