Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea that we live in a period of change, that the change is inevitable, and that it is the sacrifice we make for progress. Each element is vital: change because it is comforting to think that things are worse, or more difficult for us than our ancestors. How pleasant for the intellectual to realize that everyone about him is more conformist than their parents, and that modern taste is more subject to opinion leaders than ever before. Riesman did not discover conformity, but he gave it the respectable opprobrium of a scientific title and a social science theory. As important...
...competent script and sharp direction make a pleasant political comedy out of Novelist Wirt Williams' variation on the American dream: a Louisiana doxy marries a gubernatorial candidate she meets on the job, and winds up first lady of the state...
...right, second-team quarterback Mike Bassett (23) hands off to halfback Bill Taylor (12). Other Crimson players identifiable are fullback Fred Bartl (30) and guard Ernie Zissis (69). Taylor was a pleasant surprise for coach John Yovicsin. Hurt early in September, he was not expected to play this fall. But he excelled Saturday, in his third day of contact work...
...about her native state, there is an occasional wheat-crop failure, but the yield of domestic unhappiness is as invariable as debt and taxes. In The Narrow Covering (TIME, July 30, 1956), careless and malevolent death bore down on ordinary prairie folk to whom Author Siebel assigned hardly a pleasant, let alone a happy, moment. For the Time Being is relatively upbeat. No one dies. Yet no one lives, either; like a quarter section of Spoon River Anthology, the human crop is sown with indifference and raised in contumely. It is only because Author Julia Siebel speaks with an oldfashioned...
...that the editors entirely renounced their pleasant vices. The paper's office moved around a good bit in those days and wherever it went there was a sanctum, the center of exuberant conviviality. Franklin D. Roosevelt recalled years later the occasion of the transfer of quarters to the Union in 1891: "There was much fear that the new quarters would take away the esprit de corps which had grown up in the old sanctum, and also that no punch night could be held in the Union. Both fears have proved to be groundless...