Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Farrakhan is indisputedly a Black leader of import. After twenty years of ineffective sentimentalism on the part of the traditional Black leadership, Farrakhan is an original, if not pleasant voice in the Black community...
...good it is and how pleasant...
...bystanders with a smile as he strode across the 4-in.-wide line at the center of the span that marks the barrier between East and West. Then he asked, "When will I see my wife?" Replied one of the Americans: "If all goes well, you'll have a pleasant surprise in Frankfurt...
...million, becoming the first two-time winner of a million-dollar-plus state lottery. Stunned officials had to consult a statistics professor before determining that Adams had just beaten odds of 17.3 trillion to 1. Both of her winning tickets were purchased at the 7-Eleven store in Point Pleasant that her fiance owns and she has managed for the past decade. Adams was back at work the day after her win was announced, but the couple are planning to sell the store before they marry in April. "I want to go to business school," she says...
...easy to believe him, for in person Boulez is affable and charming. Of average height, balding, with a pleasant Gallic face, he could pass for a friendly greengrocer in his native Loire region. Yet throughout his career, his work has often been criticized for what some perceive as a fundamental coldness. Boulez resents the charge and defends his musicianship. Recalling the hostile reception he met from the fiercely proprietary Bayreuth musicians before his first Ring, he notes, "When you are attached to contemporary music, immediately they suppose you don't know the classic repertoire. But I think I can study...