Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aesthetics as well, Philharmonic Hall is a pleasant contribution. The beige travertine columns of its exterior will command the Lincoln center plaza with a classic sort of simplicity that is comforting for New York. Eventually it will be faced by the New York State Theater and the Metropolitan Opera House, both to be built in the similar style with columned facades. Only the Juliard School of Music which will stand to the rear of the Philharmonic will offend the basic scheme and even that offense is not a particularly serious...
...Miss has its attractions-a green and pleasant campus, a perennially powerful football team, and very pretty coeds, two of whom won the Miss America contest in successive years, 1958 and 1959. But it is a cheerfully unintellectual institution with nothing special to offer the mind of an earnest man of 29. As a symbol of the Negroes' struggle for justice, Meredith's cause was worth all the trouble it stirred up, but as an individual's aspiration for intellectual fulfillment, it was hardly persuasive...
...swimming pool, with nozzles set inconspicuously at intervals. The plumbing is connected to a tank of water-base Pyraid insecticide; when the owner flicks a switch, a pump jets the lethal mist over the area. A two-minute spray is effective for about half a day, gives off a pleasant lemon odor. The device is made by Feller Chemical Co. of Woodside, N.Y. De luxe unit, adequate for coverage of a 5,000-sq.-ft. area...
...jingles on the air in the 1920s (later sponsored Duffy's Tavern, Mr. District Attorney) and so, by feeding back up to 26% of sales into promotion, helped build the small pharmaceutical house into a $160 million-a-year top drugmaker; of a heart attack; in Point Pleasant...
...been so good before. [See not above.] Take Joanne Hamlin, for instance. Her Lady Cicely is everything Shaw himself could have wanted from the part: she can completely silence the ditherings of male incompetence in her quiet, unruffled voice that will not tolerate nonsense. Demurely dominating, she establishes her pleasant despotism early in the first act, and it is never subsequently seriously shaken...