Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...list of impressive-sounding, Anglo-Saxon, and completely imaginary names. But by selling a Texas oil millionaire a warehouseful of nylon ropes that no one wanted because they had communications wires inside them, de Antonio made enough money out of Conservative Enterprises to take a rather long, rather pleasant vacation...
...Broadway RUGANTINO, an Italian language musical with English titles suspended over the stage, is a pleasant Broadway novelty...
...People see what they "need" to see. The pupil of the eye dilates on seeing pleasant things, contracts at distasteful things. The more ambiguous the view, the more it rouses preconceptions-as in the Rorschach test, for example. Seeing is so subjective that coins of the same size look bigger to poor children than to rich children. suggestible subjects: children aged seven to eight, girls and women, people with higher...
Rugantino, a musical transported intact from Rome and sung and spoken in Italian, is a pleasant novelty on Broadway. Unobtrusive English titles are flashed on a narrow screen above the stage to keep the playgoer abreast of action and dialogue. More nearly an operetta than a musical comedy, Rugantino is lavishly and attractively costumed and atmospherically set in Rome in 1830. Its bawdry is innocent, its humor earthy, its love songs are unselfconsciously sentimental...
Shaw's Hell turns out to be a very pleasant place. One would have expected him to create a pleasant Inferno, just as one would have expected him to create, in the main portion of the play, a predatory woman, a snivelling romantic who pursues her in vain and an anti-romantic iconoclast whom she finally corners...