Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Abram Bergson, Professor of Economics, turns 70 years old this spring, reaching what he calls "the pleasant age of retirement." He expects successors to be found in his fields of expertise, which include comparative systems and socialist economics...
...TITLE OF the movie Can She Bake a Cherry Pie comes from an old children's song--"Where have you been Billy Boy, Billy Boy....", a pleasant enough ditty despite its slightly pathetic overtones. And like the song, the movie has problems balancing a charming and entertaining story about an affair between two old New Yorkers with depressing, almost pathetic characterizations and themes...
...Starlet Koo Stark. For their part, Katie's parents (he is a well-established London gynecologist) seemed to have no objections. Their daughter, who has modeled and acted on TV and in the movies, has said nothing about the romance, keeping the hounding press at bay with a pleasant smile and chirpy "No comment...
...trying to renew the old spirit of the race," said Paul M. Connolly '84, in charge of the race this year. "We're trying to figure out ways to make sure it's less violent and emphasize creative, pleasant rafts," he added...
...front of me remind me of the thesis which I have put aside while I fulfill my teaching responsibilities. Tommy's can actually help my concentration; it may not be the clean, well-lighted place of my dreams, but on a sunny. Thursday afternoon it can be rather pleasant indeed, with its homincss, its, unique personal touches, its tireless staff and its familiar "regulars." It has the unkillable buzz of a life which no institution can eradicate, of a life which extends far beyond the classrooms of Harvard into the city itself, and is echoed too in the pages...