Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these alternatives, but who spend their afternoons studying in libraries or working in the laboratories. These girls are forced either to waste the time it takes them to go back and forth between the Yard and the hall dining rooms or to eat in the Square with the pleasant knowledge that they are paying for the lunch they don't eat as well as for the one they...
...woman to enter a profession," she asserts vigorously, but then qualifies, "If she has a family she can't go off and leave it in the lurch. I believe that as much as anybody." Her own career has sometimes been a lonely one. "It would have been pleasant to have had another woman on the Court of Appeals," the Judge notes a little wistfully. She denies that her sex has in any way constricted her career. "Some people would rather deal with a man than a woman. On the contrary, some would rather deal with a woman than...
...Hitchcock version of The 39 Steps that starred Madeleine Carroll and the late Robert Donat was a sensitively controlled crescendo of excitement-perhaps the best .chase picture of its generation. The new version, directed by Britain's Ralph (Doctor in the House) Thomas, is simply a pleasant little comedy of murders...
Nothing in John Updike's life seems like adequate preparation for the private terrors of his characters. Dry and courteous, only child of a high school mathematics teacher in Shillington, Pa., he brings to mind Picasso's picture Boy Leading a Horse and bears a pleasant resemblance to the lad. As a boy. Updike wanted to be a cartoonist for Disney or The New Yorker, and after Harvard he studied drawing at Oxford. He no longer draws or paints but is acute enough to know that his writing "is excessively pictorial." He began sending work...
Valentina Titova, leader of a group of eight Russians who arrived here yesterday, cited campaign buttons and political advertising as evidence that Americans do not take issues as seriously as Russians. Another Russian visitor quoted a University of New Hampshire student as favoring Kennedy because he was "more pleasant...