Word: enjoyable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than 600,000 tourists swarmed into Washington to enjoy the esthetic pleasures of the Japanese cherry blossoms. Massachusetts' Republican Representative Edith Nourse Rogers, moved by the daffodils on her House Restaurant table, arose to exclaim: "They were like sunshine, and gladdened our eyes and hearts." The President of the U.S. could almost picture the jonquils around his Gettysburg farmhouse as he led the exodus for the three-day weekend that was the spring standard for official Washington...
...investigatory committee, however, should look for two dangers inherent in such independence as the commissions enjoy. The natural tendency of any agency is to increase its power beyond that intended by the statutes creating it, especially when those statutes are vague. The investigation should determine how well the commissions have stuck to their original functions and should lead to a more exact definition of their position in the enforcement of legislation...
Before destiny sideswipes him, the lean, fiftyish Pippin is content to live on his unearned income and enjoy a nightly orgy of stargazing from the roof of his Parisian town house. More concierge than wife, Mme. Héristal rations out new telescopes with a parsimonious hand. Daughter Clotilde, 20, is addicted to Hollywood horse operas and has already Saganalyzed her life in a bestseller written at 15, Adieu...
...more incomprehensible plays of the experimental schools may have on the art of the theater is to bring about confusion between the profound and the merely obscure. It would probably be unkind to suggest that either the audience at the Yale festival, which for the most part seemed to enjoy all the productions, or those people who selected the plays to be produced were suffering from such a form of confusion. But after three days the surfeit of obscurity did have a somewhat soporific ecect...
...weak parts of the book and music. He made good use of his few really good cast members, but there were always too many people involved on stage for the efforts of a few to keep the whole show bouncing. Nevertheless, those who delight in Gilbert and Sullivan will enjoy most of The Pirates of Penzance, while the less addicted will find it less than enjoyable...