Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...characterization by installment, and the perpetual interplay of the remaining characters, camped on the edges of your attention, keeps the scene from going stale. Almost all the actors, however minor, develop distinctive and suggestive mannerisms that make you look out for them during certain incidents, and there's a pleasant kind of satisfaction in seeing them react as you suspected they might...
...orchestra, and the talk tends to gripes about six-hour bus rides to play a concert and union negotiations with management. The Sinners are aware that the Saints consider them irreverent. "The Mormons really think they are superior people," says a Sinner cellist. "They are polite to us and pleasant enough, but we really don't mingle with them at all." The biggest difference between the two buses is the attitude toward the Maestro. To the Saints, Abravanel is a revered father figure. To the Sinners, he is a typical conductor-a dictator touched with fanaticism...
Without much question, one of the more pleasant surprises during an up and down type of season for Harvard hockey has been the consistent play of three gifted freshmen, George Hughes, Gene Purdy and Jim Trainor...
...from moment to moment. And by tirelessly splashing his colors upon human beings, too, Naipaul smears identities in a way that drives home the ambiguity of this place. A British white woman has a color not at all like that "of local white people"; when Peter Roche grins, his pleasant demeanor is destroyed by the black roots of his molars; and the "red of aggression" that appears in a slum child's eyes is easily confused with the "red of weeping." Naipaul is constantly turning things inside out--people's clothes, their bodies, their thought--until what is apparent...
...well wonder what would move otherwise deliberate, sensual, more-or-less well-adjusted people to bug out their eyes, desert their beds and friends, and throw down large doses of industrial strength instant Maxwell House. For some, (and such matters are impossible to quantify) a senior thesis is a pleasant opportunity, to write a truly trenchant essay concerning some topic of major interest. But for many others, those for whom the process is a pall on their lives and for whom the process is a pall on their lives and for whom the product has no meaning, the motive force...