Word: pleasant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...American liberals... presided over the onset both of the war in Vietnam and the violence in American cities. These things may not be our fault, but... they most surely must be judged our doing." ily accepted. It is time the idea became more familiar in domestic matters. It is pleasant to hear the New Left declare that the white liberal is the true enemy because it is he who keeps the present system going by limiting its excesses, but it is more the informed conservatives who perform that function--the Robert Tafts of the nation--and at the present juncture...
...indeed a fact that it is so much more pleasant to be able to stroll across Lafayette Park to endorse or to veto a public works program than it is to have to go through the misery of persuading fifty state legislatures. But that has to do with the personal comfort of middle-aged liberals, not with the quality of the government action that results, and in a time of some trouble, comfort cannot be the sole consideration...
Moynihan said he thinks Romney "is concerned about some problems now that he wasn't aware of last spring." Moynihan concluded that the evening was "very pleasant, and the food was actually good...
...Secretary of State William Bundy, was the result of secret contacts between U.S. and North Vietnamese officials that began in Moscow in January 1967. By early February, when both the Johnson and Ashmore letters were written, it was obvious that Hanoi was not interested in talks, no matter how pleasant Ho had been during his brief chat with Ashmore and Baggs. North Vietnamese diplomats in Moscow went so far as to return U.S. messages unopened to underscore their lack of interest. "Mr. Ashmore yields to an understandable feeling that his own channel was the center of the stage," said Bundy...
...nearly 300 large-scale planned communities and "new towns" that have sprung up across the U.S. Their troubles are a source of particular concern because architects and developers alike feel that the best of the projects could teach the whole country how to surround homes with a more pleasant environment. Moreover, planners consider new towns a promising antidote to the suburban sprawl. Such haphazard building, they say, could wreck the countryside as the U.S. doubles its stock of housing over the next 30 years...