Word: enjoyable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since it started broadcasting as an FM station, WHRB has been unduly sensitive to the interests of its sophisticted FM audience. Most of these listeners are not Harvard students, and no doubt they would not particularly enjoy hearing Yodellin' Slim Clark sing "The Cat Came Back...
...humorous aspects of premeditated murder are almost identical with those of custard-pie comedy: connoisseurs of both can enjoy the victim's splendid initial innocence, his growing disbelief and alarm, and, finally, his absurd response to the inexorable offices of fate. It takes a trained mind to really appreciate the drolleries of the rubout, however; when the gaudiest murder of the year was staged one morning last week in the barber shop of Manhattan's Park Sheraton Hotel, nobody in the U.S. was as well qualified to enjoy its subtleties as bulky, greying Albert Anastasia-onetime Lord High...
...little straighter." Flinty old (83) Poet Frost proved to Pundit Reston that he is no slacker at punditry himself. Frost welcomes the struggle and decision-making that make life tough-and neither the Russians, nor their satellites (terrestrial or spatial) upset him a bit: "We ought to enjoy a standoff. Let it stand and deepen in meaning. Let's not be hasty about showdowns. Let's be patient and confident with our country." As optimistic as he is individualistic, Robert Frost summed up his poet's-eye view of the U.S.: "I stand here at the window...
...right to entertain girls in one's room is a privilege granted by the University. But its withdrawal should be of demonstrable benefit. The only group which benefits from the weekly amputation of the parietal hours is the house committees, whose dances, presumably, enjoy increased attendance...
...were to fully possess the minds and spirits of the children and raise a dedicated, zealous generation of communists. The parents, having lived part of their lives in happier days before Hitler and war, infected with the democratic notion that man can live according to his own wishes and enjoy certain basic rights, could not be trusted to teach the new communist concepts to their children. Worse still, the parents might spread this infection to their children by exposing them to outmoded religious ideals and other beliefs diametrically opposed to communist truths...