Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JOAN N. BEYER Point Pleasant...
...back on the river around 10 a.m. Still did not catch anything, but it made for a pleasant walk. There was an old lodging railroad bed paralleling the stream, and it was relatively easy to walk a fair distance since someone had kept the bed free of trees (probably for snowmobiling). Spring isn't far enough advanced in northern New Hampshire for the trees to have any green on them, but the evergreens give some color to the sides of the ridges, and the stream is completely free of ice, though only because the water is moving swiftly...
...sweet enough young thing, even in the early going she suggests no mysterious depths of feeling, intelligence or sexuality that would require more than 40 minutes to plumb. As she ages-and life plays its usual mean tricks on the three of them-she seems a pleasant, easy kind of woman but not the focal point around which three lives are built...
...Cunard, the memory will not be so pleasant. The cost of the leaking fuel line in mid-Caribbean-including fare refunds, the Sea Venture charter, salvage fees, jet fares, lay-up in a Bermuda drydock and canceled cruises-may even exceed a cool $2 million...
...foresee. My friends and I are in traditional job tracks, for the most part, though a surprising number are quietly organizing here and there. The harder edges of our radicalism have softened, but what remains has gained respectability (not what we wanted at the time). Harvard is a more pleasant place for the children of the upper-middle-class to pass a few years in, but the Corporation's rule remains unchallenged...