Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...failure can be traced to its solidarity. Foreign correspondents, wherever they are stationed, are tempted to band together into an unofficial club; they are their own closest connection with home. When they have finished covering a story, when they have examined it from every angle, they find it pleasant to relax in each other's company. In Saigon, however, more than mere sociability brings the U.S. correspondents together...
...faces of peasants-all done in the subdued tonalities of their dulcet quattrocento ancestors, Fra Angelico, Domenico Veneziano and Piero della Francesca. This week in Manhattan, a show of 92 works goes on view at the American Federation of Arts Gallery; to many viewers, it will be a pleasant new-found island (see color) in the apparently empty seas of Italian art between the baroque period of the late 18th century and the futurism of the early 20th...
...teach reading, she sought to find out what words held the most intense meaning for her pupils. "Pleasant words won't do. Respectable words...
...hard these days to evoke childhood's lost garden of innocence when current fiction insists that there is no such thing and that the very young are very wicked, with tendencies to parricide and cannibalism. Thus it is both a pleasant and surprising experience to read Jack Kerouac's Visions of Gerard, which asserts the faith that a child has a better chance of being good than someone older who is already visited by corruption. Perhaps only someone known as a high-bellowing beatnik prose man, and thus a bit of a child himself, could have pulled...
...road companies, a book peddler, a songwriter, a bum in London and Paris and tout for a brothel in Tangier. He has told all in a sort of breathless antistyle that can be the most irritating of all styles. Every frightful thing that happened to him (and the rare pleasant event) is told in exactly the same tone of voice as if his book were being read by a court attendant. Sample day from Bernard Kops's non stop diary: "Near my home one night I was attacked. I didn't feel the blows. It was like fists...