Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kluckhohn's reaction to undergraduates typifies a concern for College students that distinguishes Social Relations from most other departments. The Soc Rel staff goes out of its way to make life pleasant for its undergraduate concentrators; it opens all of its facilities to them, offers tutorial to as many as it can, and makes it as easy as possible for them to enter the Honors program. While other departments--particularly English--have rigidly segregated Honors students from non-Honors students and restricted credit tutorial on the basis of rank list standing, Social Relations had opened Honors and tutorial to more...
...else in showing how deucedly come he is, and no doubt that's the way roman comedy really was played; I however was horribly enervated by it. It also includes Lynn Milgrim, a glorious courtesan in net stockings and high heels, and kendra stearns, her maid, who assumes a pleasantly nearsighted stare every time she is confronted with an pleasant situation...
Hassan had some alternatives, none of them very pleasant: he could make his own coalition with one of the opposition parties, a solution difficult to achieve without losing royal face. Or he could declare a "recount" of votes and rig the results, a course repugnant to the idealistic monarch. Using the constitution he drafted last year, Hassan could even dissolve the House and forget about the democracy he had promised the nation. Wrestling with his dilemma, the King got little sympathy from the opposition. Jeered National Union Leader Abderrakim Benabid...
...with performances of his Caramel Mou: Shimmy for Jazz Band and Singer, a string quartet, a ballet, 'Adame Miroir, and his one-act opera Medea), local critics rejoiced in "the new turn" Milhaud's futuristic Suite suggested. But to Milhaud himself the new turn was only a pleasant reminiscence of work he did 40 years ago. "Now that everyone else is doing these things," he said cheerlessly, "they think I am following their steps. That is part of the general misunderstanding a composer faces all his life...
...school chums, war buddies, the guys from the adjoining office at the first job, the mothers who wheeled their first babies in the same park, the couple who lived across the hall in the first apartment in the first housing project. Plus the long line of vacationers who proved pleasant company and valuable bridge partners last summer on the island, or three years ago in Europe, but seem not quite so desirable once back on home ground. And, over the years, the added accumulation of friends of friends, whom neither husband nor wife admits responsibility for having ever encouraged...