Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Again, this observation hardly rates as an intellectual or journalistic breakthrough, but it is still valid. The point simply struck home with an unusual force Saturday afternoon, perhaps as a result of the contrast between a pleasant, idle afternoon and the suddenly not-so-distant mess of the nation, brought into focus by the daily paper...
Life is tough, you repeat to yourself, but the memories of your own rather pleasant weekend, filled with morning sails and evening gins-and-tonic, gives you the strength to fight off any and all twinges of upper-middle-class guilt. Back to the newspaper, which offers little solace: the holiday weekend; it reports, featured a grand total of 15 murders, not including the 150 or so wounded in the explosion of an ice-cream truck in Manhattan. And the summer hasn't even begun...
With forethought and on-scene thrift, Europe can still be affordable and memorable. The small hotels and offbeat restaurants can be as pleasant as any in the world. But don't forget the aspirin...
...relations. Nonetheless, it's perhaps easy to understand why these particular workers praise Harvard. Each has his or her own standard by which to judge the University, based on past employment experiences as waitresses, bellhops or windowwashers. Lowell House, with its lazy afternoons and glistening chandeliers, may be a pleasant change...
These workers say that the attitude of the students' goes far to make the jobs pleasant. "There's not one student I wouldn't want living in this House," Thelma says. "These kids are so appreciative. Just the other day. I fixed the milk machine for a boy, I thought he had gone and sat down, when he suddenly came up and thanked me." Pat agrees. "There's more closeness in this House than in the other Houses--it's like one big happy family." She disappears into the kitchen and returns a moment later with a plain pink card...