Word: pleasant
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Whatever else may happen, the Administration should not be surprised to find itself increasingly isolated. It is a revelation--and not a pleasant one--to suddenly see the "other" face of Harvard. Whatever understanding or trust may have existed between the Administration and the student body will be seriously eroded by the recent actions, and by the general course the Administration has chosen to follow...
...deny Bok or McDonald and Riggs their fun. Indeed, it was a pleasant, funny relief from the tension and high emotion of encampments and protests...
...Harris still holds nothing against the wooly mammoth or its new-found buddies, McDonald, Riggs and Bok. Indeed, he remains indefatigably cheerful, pleasant and hopeful for a response soon. He has no illusions that the letter sent by his Boston-based group, Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni for Divestiture, will prompt Bok to divest...
...trip was a success, but the Chinese made him work hard. Bush wanted to lobby for improved trade. While cordial in private, Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping publicly upbraided the U.S. for its continued support of Taiwan, which he called the "principal problem" between the two countries. Bush was pleasant but unyielding. "They know our position, and we * know theirs," he said. Obstacles aside, the U.S. is now China's third-largest trading partner (estimated 1985 total: $7 billion), after Japan and Hong Kong. By week's end Bush had good news: the NATO-Japan coordinating committee on export controls, which...
...underline that adolescent sense of wonder, Bradbury refuses to fly ("pure fear") or even to drive ("bicycle's good enough"). Every morning, the oversize kid takes leave of Marguerite and their home in the pleasant Cheviot Hills section of Los Angeles and heads for an office in Beverly Hills. There, amid a clutter of toys, masks, board games and books, he works on at least six projects at a time, continually surprising himself. His current favorite: a space opera about a man once blinded by a comet who murderously seeks it in the void. "Sort of Ahab with jet boosters...