Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RUGANTINO, an Italian-language musical with English titles suspended over the stage, is a pleasant Broadway novelty. Its bawdry is innocent, its humor earthy, its girls look blessedly like girls, and its picaresque hero is forever outwitting himself...
...ruined buildings were restored, in many cases stone for stone, the way they were before the war, and today the city is a pleasant hodgepodge of architectural styles, running the gamut from grim Gothic to glass-and-steel modern, with ample home-grown Rococo sandwiched between. Primarily a center of light industry, Munich today provides 700,000 jobs (and has 18,700 unfilled), turns out everything from optical equipment and ready-to-wear clothing to motorcycles and beer-of which the Munchners drink 230 liters a year v. 108 for the average German...
...been slowest of the northern industrial centers to evolve a militant civil rights movement. Partly this is because the Negroes population is relatively small, partly it is because Negroes here are not quite so oppressively impoverished as in New York or Chicago. New York passed through these relatively pleasant phases of the movement which Boston is experiencing well over a year ago. The Negro civil rights leadership there has now begun to split, with organizations competing to attract followers...
...very much delighted to have him," Richard T. Gill, Master of Leverett House, said last night. "We hope to make it as pleasant and quiet as possible to give him a chance to work on his book." Gill added that he had made the House dining hall facilities available to Sorensen. Whether or not Sorensen will eat there depends, Gill said, on his schedule...
Master Gill said that if Sorensen's plans to live in the Towers changed at some later date, Sorensen would be able to maintain his affiliation with the House. "But we hope he'll stay, and that is why we want to make it quiet and pleasant," Gill said...