Word: pleasanter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he has had a chance to savor the life of pensioned leisure (his after-tax income is roughly the same as his take-home pay the year before), Kuechenmeister finds the ordeal not only bearable but downright pleasant. "It's a relief to be retired," he admits in almost surprised tones. "I'm satisfied. I'm happier not working than I was working. The tensions are gone. If I want to stay up to midnight to watch a football game, I don't have to worry about getting up the next morning...
When Carter's energy plan was announced last spring, though, Mobil's arguments took a curious turn. It seemed that Carter wanted to expand the use of coal in industries that had previously used oil, and Mobil got a little bit frightened. While coal was a pleasant sideline for the energy conglomerate, oil was its mainstay; so suddenly and mysteriously Mobil acquired an environmental conscience. In an ad entitled "Musings of an oil person," Mobil questioned the desirability of a switch to coal on the grounds that it raised serious environmental questions, including the problems of strip mining...
...tongue-in-cheek speech of the Oxford players is ubiquitous, even when talking to one another. A constant stream of jibes and dry remarks on a variety of topics is the norm. When asked what they thought of the people around Harvard, Bodgin replied, "Very pleasant." Reeve added his approval, saying, "Everyone seems to be neat and tidy." Crisp interjected, "What about that Buddhist fellow with the shaved head...
While she agrees that the unemployment rate is high in the ghettos, she believes there are jobs available--not pleasant ones, true, or those offering much chance for promotion, but jobs are there, and it's the fault of the unemployed that they turn to easier, faster, illegal ways of making money...
Given the high quality of the acting, from Guinness on down, Bennett makes a pleasant afternoon outside Moscow into an amusing evening at the theater. Yet it is hard to like The Old Country more than just a little. "Hilary is Hilary watching Hilary watching Hilary," says his wife. And that is perhaps two Hilarys too many...