Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alums, with their checks and money orders, can help make that happen. The development office sees those checks as thank-yous for a pleasant party or as tangible expressions of nostalgia for a past that never was. But they could be thoughtful evaluation of Harvard's progress toward a grand future...
Plenty of administrators have left their pleasant little offices to pump hands and chat with Harvard's friends. Everyone planning to attend Saturday's Stadium Celebration should ask them what's being done to give a real voice in University decision-making to those who aren't middle-aged, pinstriped white men with dark-colored sedans and homes in Belmont or Weston. If the answers seem a bit contrived, alums can express dissatisfaction at annual giving time...
...select 49 were informed by invitation in early August that they had been chosen to attend the tea with Charles. For most it was an unexpected though pleasant surprise...
Viewed from hip Los Angeles, Orange County has sometimes seemed a quaint appendage sprawling southward down the Pacific Coast, a pleasant afterthought with an odd weakness for white shoes and alarmists of the John Birch Society stripe. To the larger world, the county still summons up images of citrus groves and Disneyland, planned communities and the young Richard Nixon, hard- core conservatism and the late John Wayne. But today Orange County is undergoing a dramatic change, exploding with new wealth. Its economic output has more than tripled in a decade, and its population since 1970 has jumped...
...most pleasant avocations of pregnancy -- and one of the earliest assertions of parental power -- is deciding on the baby's name. The discussions sometimes go on until after the baby is born, when it becomes clear, for example, that the little girl should not be called Howard. Occasionally, of course, the father's (or mother's) yearning for a son is so intense that the girl is called Howard anyway. Some nations feel obliged to intervene against such eccentricities. In France, it is illegal to give any child a name that is not already held by a saint...