Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them some $600 million. One way to get the gold back is to lure European tourists to the U.S. Two years ago President Eisenhower named 1960 as "Visit U.S.A. Year" and promised potential travelers that "all of us here will do everything in our power to make your visit pleasant and memorable...
There are pleasant things, to be sure, in all of this, and there is one strong feat of acting. But there is no harmony of mood or certainty of movement; trying its luck with this thing and that, Camelot has made a fish pond of its story rather than a widening stream, and provides an evening that for all its sumptuous adornments seems curiously empty...
Joel Lazar and the Bach Society Orchestra gave an-other demonstration Sunday afternoon of their phenomenal ability to play almost anything. This time they presented Mozart, Vivaldi, and Milhaud, and handled all three with considerable case. The orchestra's consistently graceful and polished readings afforded a most pleasant antidote to the bleakness of a pre-blizzard Cambridge...
...Princemps"), the program's second work, hardly deserves to be called a symphony. Its three movements last barely three minutes in all, and the Orchestre is limited to nine players (string quartet, harp, and four winds). But like much early Milhaud, the music, for all its pretensions, is pleasant and quite lyrical. And it received a very lyrical performance. Mr. Lazar conducted with a deft touch, and his small group of players responded with a spirited and humorous reading that pleased the directors as much as it did the audience. He played all three minutes over again for an encore...
Village of the Damned (M-G-M). One fine day at precisely 10:57 a.m., every living thing in the pleasant village of Midwich in the south of England suddenly and for no apparent reason drops senseless where it sits or stands, and lies as if dead. A mason jack-knifes over a wheelbarrow; a cow collapses in a field. What has happened? No gas, no radiation is detectable. Then all at once, as swiftly as it struck, the mysterious interdiction lifts. The villagers, the cows, the birds awake. They all feel chilly, but retain no memory of their inexplicable...