Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elusive, since only the diehard board cowboys join local clubs. But listen to beach-shop owners, and there is no doubt that surf's up as never before. "We're seeing a whole new crowd," says Gary Cimochowski, owner of the Brave New World, a supply store in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J. "Young guys are taking up the sport, and older guys are coming back...
Life in Emma's England may have been pleasant, but no modern intruder would feel at home there. Houses with handsome fireplaces remained pretty cold, reading by candlelight was difficult, and there was still no running water. It was only the industrial era that brought such improvements as household gas lamps in the 1840s, electricity in the 1880s and then the great heap of laborsaving appliances at the turn of the century. In 1870 fully 60% of employed American women worked as household servants; 50 years later most of the servants had vanished, to be replaced by electric vacuums...
...quite specific in his views of how to make houses more pleasant. "Reexamining bourgeois traditions means returning to house layouts that offer more privacy and intimacy than the so-called open plan, in which space is allowed to 'flow' from one room to another," he writes. "A reexamination of the bourgeois tradition of comfort is an implicit criticism of modernity, but it is not a rejection of change...
...meal a day and only six belongings and lots of chanting and of course celibacy, but they didn't act much like it. At any one time, three or four of the monks would seat themselves in a circle around me and just stare. The trip was quite pleasant; off the boat you could see pagodas in the middle of nowhere, clusters of thatched huts on stilts, and old-fashioned fishing boats. The only thing was that the monks insisted on smoking cheroots while keeping the windows closed, we figured so that they could really feel the difference from...
...gates around the Yard and a new batch of immigrants become its citizens. More than 30,000 strong, including employees and students, Harvard's a small town with big city morals. While here you'll find a diversity rarely found in a community of this size and a pleasant tolerance of ideas and different modes of behavior...