Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead, Harvard should offer classes that teach simple skills and pleasures that will be useful to men and women whose lives are likely to be both sedentary and stressful. Classes should have a pleasant mix of walking, simple 5-minute calisthenics, breathing exercises and the like--stuff which will actually be useful in later life...
...Instead, Harvard should offer classes that teach simple skills and pleasures that will be useful to men and women whose lives are likely to be both sedentary and stressful. Classes should have a pleasant mix of walking, simple 5-minute calisthenics, breathing exercises and the like--stuff which will actually be useful in later life...
...point of March Madness. It's no fun if everything goes according to plan; we all love rooting for the underdog and watching him succeed. This attitude mostly has to do with basketball, but it also has to do with the time of the year--it's spring, and pleasant surprises are the order...
...fitting point of departure from Concord is Sleepy Hollow, a pleasant wooded ramble where 19th century Concordians used to take the air. Many of them linger there still. Sleepy Hollow is now a cemetery whose residents include the Alcotts, Emerson, Hawthorne, Lothrop and Thoreau...
...neighborhood around the public library in Bryant Park across town as the domain of Lucinda Wyman, the heroine of Ruth Sawyer's Roller Skates, who prowled the city a century ago, making friends of cab drivers, patrolmen, fruit vendors, junk dealers and confectioners--defying her class-conscious relatives. A pleasant place to lunch nearby: the Algonquin, onetime hangout of wits and wags Dorothy Parker, George S. Kaufman and Robert Benchley...