Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Killer Inside Me leaves you feeling depressed and sick. The world seen through the eyes of a cool psychopathic killer is not a pleasant one. When you finish, you'll need some reassurance that your world is still normal. But it's all worth it. Thompson draws you unexpectedly into a mind probably very unlike your...
...IHAD THE PLEASANT DUTY of commenting on Harvard's public service programs at Quincy House's recent 350th celebration. The contrast between now and 25 years ago in the climate for such programs in Cambridge is remarkable...
Luckily for readers, Suskind is as skillful at describing scents as his protagonist is at detecting them, allowing us to share the unique experience of Grenouille's sensual explorations, if not his unbiased reception of both pleasant and putrid smells. Eighteenth-century France is a sensual playground for Grenouille, as Suskind writes...
...little jingle in the shower most every morning: "Mm-mm bad, mm-mm bad, that's what most fast-food is, mm-mm bad." They're right. Considering how much of the drek we eat every year, a little knowledge about it can only be helpful, if not pleasant. And considering how much we spend on the stuff every year, a $4.95 investment in the book is a bargain...
...Third, to honor the alumni and faculty who have achieved distinction in some field of letters, music, and intellectual pursuit and who, as with the Masters and Senior Tutors, promote leadership and vision for us. Fourth, to create social events that will allow students to meet each other in pleasant surroundings and simply to have a good time...