Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pleasant Surprise. Businessmen everywhere are spending; American Telephone & Telegraph alone will invest more than $3 billion in plant and equipment in 1964. Many economic experts believe that capital budgets will rise more than the anticipated 10% this year-largely because they expect that the tax cut will inspire the U.S. public to spend more. The cuts will average out to $133 a year for each wage earner. It is still too soon to measure how much of his saving the consumer will spend, but early signs are hopeful...
...explain that eating an insect could be harmless, then he would plop a live roach in his mouth and chew it up. The demonstration was invariably impressive, but most trial lawyers agree with San Francisco's Jake Ehrlich, who looks not for stuntmen but for experts with "a pleasant demeanor, good solid judgment, some learning, and the sense to keep quiet at the right time...
...Alegrias (a suite from the ballet Divertissement Flamencoco). It is tempting to dismiss this piece as one of the best warm-up exercises since Czerny, but that would not be entirely fair. Gerhard, a native of Catalonia, has written an incoherent suite but good ballet music, it contains some pleasant touches, as in the use of the piano. Since, however, the HRO lacks a corps de ballet, one wonders what Alegrias was doing on the program...
...sets, by James Kelley, are casual and pleasant. The scene changes are painfully slow, and while the recorder music is pretty, there is rather too much of it. The usherettes, however, are exceptional. In other words, "She Wou'd If She Cou'd" is not the slickest show to hit Cambridge this year, but it has its moments and makes do pretty cheerfully...
...case, two days before the termination of the program) the tension is very great, and everyone is aware that his twelve weeks training and his plans for the next two years are in the balance. In sum, I wouldn't call that aspect of the training program at all pleasant, though there's no denying the necessity...