Word: pleasanter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ONCE UPON a time there was a genre known as musical comedy--quick-paced, sly and witty, warm, didactic but shallow. The songs were pleasant and melodious, you could count on a few up-tunes and some spangled bimbos, never in any more dissonant a musical mode than mixolydian. The script--"book" it was called by those in the know--grappled with Important Issues, like racial prejudice (Finnian's Rainbow) other cultures (The King and I), utopia found and lost (Camelot) and the Nazi rise to power (Cabaret). It was good, workmanlike entertainment, done with zeal and finesse, an enjoyable...
David Francis, director of the Pleasant Point Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Program, says Catholicism and the old Indian faiths share fundamental values...
...Nicholas is the thin, terse man who is the governor of the reservation. His wispy appearance is hardly that of the first-rate green beret he once was. He is a reserved, silent man, saying only that he was in "the service" before his three years as governor of Pleasant Point...
Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said yesterday he thinks the results of the program so far have been "most pleasant...
...COLUMNS--regular and occassional, it says, so we won't know who will be showing up week to week--are a pleasant surprise. Ronald Steel on foreign affairs and Walter Karp on Carter's Trilateral Connection both are provocative reading. The back columns deal with the arts, and are uniformly excellent. Reed Whittimore, who too rarely writes for The New Republic, weighs in with a good blast of William "Fishbait" Miller's kiss-and-tell "expose" of how Congress really works--a book that deserves to be burned if ever one did. Edward Diamond tells the depressing story...