Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Calif., 18 miles north of San Diego, is a pleasant and quiet resort town with a population of 3,000. But these days some of the lively types taking advantage of the small-town atmosphere and the balmy climate have more on their minds than surfing and suntans. They are magazine editors-many in their mid-20s-holding story conferences for two new magazines, Psychology Today and Careers Today. Says Nicolas H. Charney, 27, who founded both of them: "It's a very synergistic environment...
...weakest; Ben Lyon as Golaud was very fine in an extremely taxing role, but Mark Pearson as Arkel was the finest singer of the evening. Cheryl Bibbs as Yniold effectively delivered the crucial line "I must go and tell something to someone," and Jan Curtis as Genevieve provided unfailingly pleasant work. All of the singers had to contend with the ungrateful task of singing idiomatic French vocal lines in translation. The Conservatory orchestra was simply superb, marvellously negotiating the conversation of timbres and rhythms...
Much of Nixon's new humor consists of pleasant jocularity that lightens what might otherwise be a dull or pompous occasion. Shortly after he took the oath, for instance, he noted that his favorite tune was Hail to the Chief. He had never, he added, had better seats for a parade than at the Inaugural march. "Of course, I sent for my seats eight years ago." When he was about to return to the Executive Mansion for his first night in residence, he concluded: "They've given me the key to the White House, and I have...
Neighbors described Mrs. Bean as a petite, attractive woman, quiet and pleasant...
...students; so does the spirit of confrontation politics. It is only in the exam period that all Harvard students are dealing with the Harvard, and for each, it is the worst of Harvard because it is a crisis; when the crisis subsides we make better--or at least more pleasant and dignified--use of our energies...