Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Getting into Lowell House just might be worth the trouble of dashing off a letter of preference to Dean Monro. Hospitable but not closing, intellectual but not pedantic, relaxing but not dull, and spirited but not rahrah, Lowell is an exceedingly comfortable and pleasant home base, and has enough certified Harvardian electics to make it interesting...
...high school senior from Colorado Springs. Shy and a homebody, daughter of an itinerant newspaper pressman, Peggy did not even learn to skate until she was nine. When she won her first (of three) U.S. championship in 1964, experts were as impressed by her girlish grace and pleasant looks as by her acrobatics and technique. "Peggy is not a fiery skater," said Dick Button. "She is a delicate lady on the ice." And at Davos, it figured to take more than delicacy to surpass Canada's defending champion Petra Burka. Only four times in the 60-year history...
...Russia, a new five-year plan jettisoned Nikita Khrushchev's dream of overtaking U.S. heavy industry by 1970 and focused instead on a goal that Red China's rulers condemn as pure capitalistic decadence-making life more pleasant for the people. Throughout the world, Peking seeks to incite "wars of national liberation." Yet in Red China itself, noted Columnist Joseph Alsop, the regime's paranoid leaders have become so distrustful of the younger generation that they have shipped all members of the three upper classes at pace-setting Peking University to Sinkiang, the Chinese Siberia, "to improve...
...Teeth. A different kind of goat is involved in the Mad Show- the goat that satirists always hope to make out of such national pastimes as soap-flake TV operas, movie epics, ad jingles. The result: a kind of pleasant-evening-was-had-by-all occasion...
...they do investigate us, it will not be pleasant," he said, not because we have anything to hide but because they have a history of slander and distortion...