Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Summoned from her villa in Switzerland by a phone call from the Point Pleasant, N.J., chief of police, Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 42, returned to the U.S. to the bedside of her mother, Agnes Boulton O'Neill Kaufman, 76, who had been admitted to a hospital suffering from malnutrition. It was Oona's first trip home since she renounced her citizenship 15 years ago, after Charlie ran into visa trouble with the Attorney General on "moral" grounds. Denounced and disinherited by her late father, Playwright Eugene O'Neill, for marrying the 54-year-old Chaplin when...
When my American Airlines flight touched down in Washington last Saturday morning the intercom snapped on and the stewardess announced in a voice straining to retain its routine cool, "Whatever your purpose in coming to Washington, we hope you have a pleasant day. On behalf of myself and the crew...
...help except from a quack." He went on to future goals. "I want to see the day when no child will be unwanted and unloved. I want to see welfare costs go down. Birth control clinics ought to be set up in poor neighborhoods. These places should be in pleasant, helpful surroundings -- no cold clinical atmosphere. They should operate twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, so that people don't have to miss work. And all services should be free...
...principle should guide the deliberations: no student who now lives off-campus or wishes to do so should be forced to live in a House. So long as students are free to leave, the Houses will have an incentive to maintain themselves as the pleasant, genial dwellings they are generally known to be. As President Lowell wrote several decades ago, to permit students to rent apartments "has been thought wiser than to attach to the Houses any sense of compulsion or to make residence there other than a privilege...
...description applies just about as well to any of the nation's other three metropolitan subways. Riding underground in the U.S. is such an un pleasant experience that countless potential passengers simply avoid it, and their lost fares contribute significantly to chronic operating deficits...