Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spectacular, it has a good stock of the principal necessities of this brand of entertainment--graceful, unrestrained skating, colorful chorus numbers, and plenty of unsubtle comedy. Unless you have a strong prejudice against watching people fool around on ice, an evening at the Center Theater will be pleasant, if uneventful...
Last week, now a hale 90 and almost recovered from his chagrin, Walter Smith attended a large reception in South Africa's Orange Free State. An amiable gentleman soon singled him out for conversation. It was brief but pleasant, and afterwards Mr. Smith turned back to his old friend Mr. Fowkes. "Who was that gentleman?" he asked...
Alice in Wonderland (adapted from Lewis Carroll by Eva Le Gallienne & Florida Friebus; produced by Rita Hassan & the American Repertory Theater) was one of the pleasant offerings-and possibly pleasant surprises-made by Eva Le Gallienne's old Civic Repertory Theater during the '30s. Now it emerges as perhaps the pleasantest offering of Co-Director Le Gallienne's struggling new American Repertory Theater. In a clever stage version that includes the best of Through the Looking Glass-that indeed begins with Alice stepping through the looking glass rather than down the rabbit hole-much of Lewis Carroll...
...Late George Apley. Ronald Colman and other skilled make-believe Bostonians in a pleasant adaptation of J. P. Marquand's satire (TIME, March...
...suffering but singularly free of resentment. In a prefatory note that reads like a considered epilogue she rises above personal bitterness: "The Japanese in this book are as war made them, not as God did, and the same is true of the rest of us. We are not pleasant people here, for the story of war is always the story of hate; it makes no difference with whom one fights. The hate destroys you spiritually as the fighting destroys you bodily...