Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking of the American press, the bookmobile's attendant, a pleasant, friendly fellow, confided that 90 per cent of the newspapers in this country are controlled by "one-worlders...
...this climate. President Kennedy had a most pleasant week. He and Jackie toured Maryland's Antietam battlefield (his guide dutifully allowed as how the President was quite an expert on the bloodiest day of the Civil War). It took some frantic negotiations by Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz to get striking hot dog and soda pop vendors at D.C. Stadium to pull off their pickets so that the Democratic President could enter to watch the Washington Senators' opening game. Kennedy threw out the first ball and very nearly beaned a photographer...
Inside the tight limits of musical formality, fresh ideas seem to die like birds blundering against a window. Pleasant enough music can still be written within the old boundaries, but its most pleasing aspect is likely to be its very familiarity. In their continuing search for an escape into originality, classical composers sometimes reach toward jazz, and lately they have begun to meet jazzmen coming the other way-in search of respectability. Though both schools share an adventurous spirit and an unsmiling sense of high purpose, the temptation that rules their encounters with one another is an unhappy...
...visceral-the ability to get along with people. You'll never learn about it in a government course." Some freshmen, like George McGovern, acquired it: "I used to find handshaking awkward, but now I've developed a special capacity for it;" others took to it immediately. McIntrye has pleasant memories of "going up into the countryside with gals knocking wood with just a chemise," and Dominick proudly tells of the hours he spent "glad-handing" (20 hours a day, 7 days a week by his own estimate). Politics, for these Senators, is people, not issues...
...share a common dining room, with small dining areas off to the side, which may be closed off. There will be tables for two and four as well as the usual institutional tables seating eight, and Stocky promised that the dining room, though large (capacity 175,) could be made pleasant...