Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ROLE OF GOVERNMENT. Ultimately, in a democracy all must work together. The Prime Minister will have to be the guiding factor . . . Human society must be human, not a mixture of animals, and we are 90% animals today, which is not a very pleasant thought but it is a fact. Passions belong only to animals, and if human material is superior, then we have to control passions, which should be used for proper purposes, just as steam has to be utilized for energy, not for scalding people. Government will have to set an example in its own actions...
...play are good, and add some breadth to the book. By themselves, his narrative of a sailing cruise down the Baja coast or of the mental torment involved in sliding down a swinging rope in his grandfather's huge hay barn don't say much of anything, but provide pleasant interludes between the fights Robert has with his father...
Margaret R. Cowperwaithe '79, who worked on the year-end crew last year, said yesterday that regardless of the system used to pick the workers, the job was "not all that pleasant. It was pretty lonely and depressing right after you've gotten through finals...
Once in charge of the factory, Pierre is forced to lead a double existence. On the surface he is a no-more-than-ordinarily troubled businessman with a pleasant, middle-class wife who bends and stretches in the morning so she'll still look acceptable in ten or twenty years, conscientiously takes the Pill, learns Spanish from a record, and with whom he cannot share his problems. Donning a beret and mounting a motorbike, Pierre cuts through the distinctive patches of gold and green that mark the Swiss countryside and becomes a hero in the style of Robin Hood...
Blye himself is something of a chameleon. He is 42, with a pleasant, forgettable face. It is in some of his convictions about how to do the job that fact and fiction touch. His wardrobe includes "an FBI outfit" - blue suit, white shirt and red tie ("It makes people want to stand up and salute"). His car is filled with hats of all styles - deeply valued props. Another prop consists of a wife and two children. The Blye family drives up to a house and, as the detective notes, "even subpoena-shy people are usually helpful to a man with...