Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lesser item, Variety Obit, is a kind of songs-and-patter snapshot history of the U.S. from the Puritans to the present as recorded by a vaudeville clan. While the music by Mel Marvin is pleasant and the lyrics by Bob Satuloff are plaintively evocative, the retrospective vision does not cohere...
...plant that burns garbage in pollution-free furnaces. As for the people who live outside the city center, they will be able to shop either by cable TV from home, or else drive to automated highways that will whisk their cars to downtown parking lots that are a short, pleasant stroll from the stores. Or if people prefer to ride, there will be moving sidewalks and computer-run, driverless minibuses...
...matter is infinitely more complex, of course, and devaluation will have many momentous effects, both pleasant and painful. Inside the U.S., it should create jobs in businesses that produce goods for export, by making their products cheaper for foreigners to buy. But devaluation will also aggravate American inflation-how badly no one can yet tell-by pushing up the prices of imports. In addition, American travelers will have to spend more on foreign trips; for example, the price of a single room in Tokyo's Hotel Okura last week was $27.75, v. $24 the week before...
...dining hall: "What's your thesis about?" "Well, it's sort of about--well, about appearance and reality." "Funny--mine's sort of about that, too." The old A-and-R theme--and you thought it was original. In difficult times like these, it can be a pleasant relief to get away to Boston and see a play that is explicitly and admittedly about appearance and reality...
...area which can perhaps be preserved by careful planning and judgment. Those whose concern is security alone may understandably be impatient with these considerations. My own concern is for the greatest security we can afford that is least disruptive of the life and habits that have made the Houses pleasant, interesting and varied centers of undergraduate life. This can be achieved, I believe, only by some thoughtful choice among the various kinds of protection...