Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BEEN a long time now since pleasant utopian vision were in literary fashion. In recent days, they have been replaced with bleak prophecies of emotional aridity and violence like those of Huxley and Burroughs. Martin Amis's new novel, Dead Babies, is in this new tradition...
...just let truth and falsehood fight, falsehood will be beaten." He laughs, a rare indulgence. "That's refuted on every page. Falsehood has lots of advantages. There are a lot more forms of it than there are forms of truth. An awful lot of truths are not very pleasant, and don't make people happy. The first requirement of an idea that's going to succeed is that it make people happy, not that it be true...
...refugee camp was viewed with hostility by the stolid Pennsylvania Dutch residents of Lebanon County. Within a month of the refugees' arrival, though, local sentiment changed. Volunteers offered clothing and blankets and took Vietnamese children on tours of the countryside. Eventually 420 refugees settled in the area. Less pleasant was the experience of the 42 refugees who went to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to work in a candy factory. Complaining of bad treatment, 15 or so of them left their jobs; their employer claimed that the Vietnamese expected everything to be given to them without their having to work...
...than ever, its broad front porch reflecting the brilliant floodlights out into Pennsylvania Avenue: a matron ready to serve her 176th year and shelter the man who will take us into our third century. Across the street, Andrew Jackson bestrode his rearing bronze horse in the center of the pleasant park dedicated to the visionary Frenchman who proved he also could fight: the Marquis de Lafayette. On the fringe of the peaceful scene stood St. John's Church, the small nave once again echoing with the Christmas carols as it has since John Quincy Adams used to walk over...
...blue, white and red, and Jack-In-the-Box orange is accepted without any qualms. The only required feature seems to be functionality. A store that can supply "reliable shades and screens" is going to come in handy from time to time, even if it isn't a pleasant place to browse...