Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BABES IN THE WOOD. The Globe never saw anything like Rick Besoyan's loose musical adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Its good-natured brashness provides a pleasant evening for lovers of light, spoofy theater...
...educated in Russia and Austria," he recalled. "Of the Russian schools I have no pleasant memories. The Austrian schools were just as bad, but at least they taught me German. Like most Continental systems, we studied about twenty-five subjects with twenty-five dogmatic texts. We missed all the beauty of Latin poetry because we were too busy studying grammar and syntax. We learned the techniques of calculus without understanding them--I can still do calculus problems in my sleep...
...Hampshire don't overlook Wildest Mountain which offers a 6800 foot enclosed gondols lift, a double chair, and two T-bars. The Harvard ski club's cabin nearby, makes this spot especially attractive. Just across the border in Maine, Pleasant Mountain has a chair and three T-bars. The atmosphere is comfortable and relaxing and the crowds are much smaller than the New Hampshire areas nearby...
...independence has survived for a thousand years. Burma is an economic slum, with immense problems and immense pressures, and it will go. Malaysia couldn't possibly stand with its 10 million people surrounded by a sea of Communism." As for Indonesia, "the news has not been pleasant lately...
...rich, unstable matron, Barbara finds ample cause for panic. She dreams pleasant dreams about an ardent young man, but wakes to a nightmare life with an insanely jealous husband who has no eyeballs, like Orphan Annie. His blindness encourages him to visualize elaborate hanky-panky between his wife and his attorney, Robert Taylor. When Husband Howard disappears in a fiery explosion, Barbara grows restive. Howard's cane begins tap-tapping around the house at midnight. She moves into the apartment behind a beauty parlor she owns, clearly preferring the mud-packed monstrosities that sit out front...